VERY Long Single words PROBLEM

[Fritz]

I can't be the only one that has problems with this scenario...

A user sumbits a name such as

heyeveryonemynameistommysox

or some such 'cleverness'...

If I portal this 'name' into a side bar or something similar, it will force the table width out to compensate ... Hence wrecking our 'look and feel' ...

So....

has anyone seen a string fuction that can sniff out LONG single words and chop them up with a space every 12 characters or so?

[daphreeek]

it isnt toooo hard. try something like this:

<?php
$var = "thisisalongnametobesplituplots";

$tmp = $var;
$var = "";

while (strlen($tmp) >= 12) {
	$var .= substr($tmp, 0, 12) . "<br>\n";
	$tmp = substr($tmp, 12);
}

$var .= $tmp;

echo $var;
?>

• Matt

[intenz]

There is a function to handle this: wordwrap()

Usage: string wordwrap ( string str [, int width [, string break [, int cut]]] )

Purpose: Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character.

Here is an example how I would do it...

$limit = 10;
$name = 'heyeveryonemynameistommysox';
echo wordwrap( $name, $limit );