Help: Too many chars in a row?

CoderJohan

I wonder how you can automaticly break for a newline when there are to much characters in a row... like
fdsfsdfdsjflkjdslkfjlskdjflsdkjflksdjfljdsl <---- That is a to long word and even not a word 🙂 it will screwup the layout if it gets to long but how can i turn
This
fdsfsdfdsjflkjdslkfjlskdjflsdkjflksdjfljdsl
into this
fdsfsdfdsjflkjdslkfj
lskdjflsdkjflksdjfljdsl

Any ideas?

//Johan

pyfsapple

Two ways, I think:

1.
Use html like <table> to limit the space...

2.
Use strlen() and substr(), get reference from
http://www.php.net/strlen
http://www.php.net/substr

diego25

Also take a look at http://www.php.net/wordwrap

Diego

milind24

Try this , it will work :

$text = "A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord. A very long woooooooooooord.";
$newtext = wordwrap( $text,45);
echo "<pre>".$newtext."</pre>";

CoderJohan

Yeah a wrap works but i was wondering if there are any way that it can count every word and see if its over lets say 20 letters not included spaces so words like hello doesn't get
he
llo

it counts 20 chars then <br> and counts 20 chars more and then <br>
but sentence like HelloMyNameIsJohanAndIHaveAQuestion
becomes

HelloMyNameIsJohanA
ndIHaveAQuestionAbo
utCoding

so if someone types normal lite
"Hello all how are you doing tonight"
it doesan't get wraped...
is there a way for this to work?

matt_4013

Use the strlen() and substr() functions, like suggested earlier 🙂

	$sentence = "Only one word is too long: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis";

// Split up $sentence, so you can test each word
$words = explode(" ", $sentence);

// Loop through the array created by explode
foreach($words as $longword) {

	// Check the length of the word
	if(strlen($longword) > 25) {

		// Loop through the word itself, splitting it up using substr
		for($i=0; ($i*25) < strlen($longword); $i++) {

			// the offset is needed to get the right part of the word
			$offset = $i*25;
			echo substr($longword, $offset, ($offset+25)).'<br />';

		}	

	// Else, just display the word with a space before hand (explode will strip the spaces)
	} else {

		echo " ".$longword;

	}

}

That should do it for you 🙂

CoderJohan

Hmmm.. I can't seem to get it to work like i want it to ;(
//Johan

matt_4013

Well, it worked for me 😉 I did actually test it! What's it displaying?

milind24

Hey John ,

Try wordwrap function with more parameters ,

if you want wordwrap after evrey 20 characters but if any single
word comes with greater than 20 char. that will not be wraped .
Try this :

$newtext = wordwrap( $text,10, "\n",0);

CoderJohan

These functions are all good but not work like i want...

If you have a text area and writes

"Hello how are your?
DoYouKnowWhoIAmCouseYouShouldDo"

now DoYouKnowWhoIAmCouseYouShouldDo is to long word and it should be wraped every 7th letter so when it's read from the database it looks like this

"Hello how are your?
DoYouK
nowWho
IAmCou
seYouS
houldD
o"

the "Hello how are your?" won't be wraped couse none of the words are longer then 7th letters...

Am i making anybetter sens??

pyfsapple

I think the method that matt_4013 suggested before is a suitable one for your specifications.

You can try to actually act it out...... though I haven't 😃

CoderJohan

Hmmm... i looked at matt_4013s suggestion and i forgot to copy all code... Put as i see it the code is for reading... if i loop out all the gb msg then i can use that... but if i wanna use that code when i Insert into a database how should i do then?

Maby i'm to sleepy to see it or there something else... but help would be great 🙂
//Johan

matt_4013

Well, if you were posting it to a database, all you'd do is put it into a variable, rather than echoing. See below 🙂

<?php

$sentence = "Only one word is too long: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis";

// Split up $sentence, so you can test each word
$words = explode(" ", $sentence);

// Loop through the array created by explode
foreach($words as $longword) {

	// Check the length of the word
	if(strlen($longword) > 25) {

		// If this ISN'T the first word put in a newline before the long word
		if(!empty($InsString)) {
			$InsString .= "\n";
		}

		// Loop through the word itself, splitting it up using substr
		for($i=0; ($i*25) < strlen($longword); $i++) {

			// the offset is needed to get the right part of the word
	                $offset = $i*25;
    		        $InsString .= substr($longword, $offset, ($offset+25)).'\n';

		}    

	// Else, just display the word with a space before hand (explode will strip the spaces)
	} else {

            $InsString .= " ".$longword;

    	}

}

// Put your code to insert $InsString into the database here
$db = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass") or die("Could not connect to database server");
mysql_select_db("dbname", $db) or die("Could not select database");

$sql = "INSERT INTO tablename (fieldname) VALUE ($InsString)";
mysql_query($sql, $db) or die(mysql_error());

?>

CoderJohan

Hmmmm it seems to work but... This was the text i wrote..
ddsaddsadsadasdasdsadasdsadasdsadsadsdadsdasdasdsadsadadasdsadsadsadsadasdsdsadadsadsadasdsadsadasdsadsadsadsdsdsa
Hello hello how are you doing?

and this was the outcome... Don't know why? I used the code exaktly as it said... exept that $sentence was replaced by $text from a <text area>

ddsaddsadsadasd asdsadasdsadasdsadsadsdadsdasd sadsadsdadsdasdasdsadsadsadasdsadsadsadsadasd asdsadsadsadasdsadsadsadsadasdsdsadadsadsadasdsadsadasdsadsa sadsadsadsadasdsdsadadsadsadasdsadsadasdsadsadsadasdsdsa
Hello sdsadadsadsadasdsadsadasdsadsadsadasdsdsa
Hello dsadsadasdsadsadsadasdsdsa
Hello dsadasdsdsa
Hello >Hello hello how are you doing?

any clues?
//Johan

matt_4013

ummm, it works for me, with the data you used. Can you post a link to a phps or something, so I can see where you're going wrong?

CoderJohan

Sorry Matt that i haven't replayed... Someone broke into my home and stole my computer and stuff so i was lacking in the computer area 🙂

This is the link...

http://www.vinyamar.com/~syskonskapet/syskonskapet/gbok/gbok.php?gbok=skvaller

matt_4013

No problems man, I found the problem 😉

<?php

$sentence = "Only one word is too long: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis";

// Split up $sentence, so you can test each word
$words = explode(" ", $sentence);

// Loop through the array created by explode
foreach($words as $longword) {

    // Check the length of the word
    if(strlen($longword) > 20) {

        // If this ISN'T the first word put in a newline before the long word
        if(!empty($InsString)) {
            $InsString .= "\n";
        }

        // Loop through the word itself, splitting it up using substr
        for($i=0; ($i*20) < strlen($longword); $i++) {

            // the offset is needed to get the right part of the word
                    $offset = $i*20;
                    $InsString .= substr($longword, $offset, 20).'\n';

        }    

    // Else, just display the word with a space before hand (explode will strip the spaces)
    } else {

            $InsString .= " ".$longword;

        }

}

// Put your code to insert $InsString into the database here
$db = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass") or die("Could not connect to database server");
mysql_select_db("dbname", $db) or die("Could not select database");

$sql = "INSERT INTO tablename (fieldname) VALUE ($InsString)";
mysql_query($sql, $db) or die(mysql_error());

?>

That should do it 🙂

CoderJohan

Great man! It works.... You have saved my day
🙂
//Johan