Change lines when typing in?

wanda46

I have a problem when users enter text... If the user does not hit the 'enter' key to change lines, the text will become very long, and when I display it, you have to scroll your screen again and again to read all information.

Now I wonder if there is a way that I can add <br> for a fixed length of text ...

Thank you very much for your advice.

devinemke

display the text in an HTML table with a fixed width cell, the text will wordwrap to the fixed length.

wanda46

Thanks for your input!

I tried to use word wrap this way:

but it did not work. For now, I have to use textarea, but I think it is not the best way.

Weedpacket

Might [man]wordwrap[/man] be useful?

wanda46

Thanks, it works now!

I used the following codes.

// Instance of new line (\r\n) with < br >
// Note, the received string from a text
// area may use different methods of
// symbolising the new line

$NEW_MESSAGE = str_replace("\r\n", " < br > ", $NEW_MESSAGE);

// Split it into the different words, if
// there to long word add a space then
// put all the words back into a new variable.

$SPLIT_NEW_MESSAGE = explode(" ", "$NEW_MESSAGE");

$NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS = count($SPLIT_NEW_MESSAGE);
$COUNT = 0;

 // Loop though all the words, if one is longer than
 // 40 characters put in a space, then add this word
 // to the variable containing the processed string

while ($COUNT <= $NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS) {

$CURRENT_WORD = $SPLIT_NEW_MESSAGE[$COUNT];
$LENGTH_OF_WORD = strlen ($CURRENT_WORD);

if ($LENGTH_OF_WORD >= 40) {
$CURRENT_WORD = wordwrap( $CURRENT_WORD, 40, " ", 1);
}

$FINAL_NEW_MESSAGE .= "$CURRENT_WORD ";

$COUNT = $COUNT + 1;
}

// Now print out the finished string – you might want to
// store it in a database or do some other work to it.

Echo “$FINAL_NEW_MESSAGE”;