Word Wrap, Explode, and Implode

[oprpg]

In my forums, I just recently added a wordwrap function so that if people posted long URL's, or a lot of mumble jumble without spaces it wouldn't stretch out the forum. However, I have a problem because if someone tries to use bbcode then the wordwrap messes it up. For example, if someone put , word wrap messes it up and changes the url to something like ur<br>l.gif. Can someone please help me explode the BBCode then implode it back in? heres the part of the code:

$newpagetext = wordwrap($row->pagetext, 50, "\n", 1);

if (substr($options,2,1)) echo forumparse(htmlstr($newpagetext)); else echo emoticons(forumparse($newpagetext));

[oprpg]

Also, the BBCode I use is in a separate file already included in the script.

[Weedpacket]

Here's something I wrote a while back in a not-too-dissimilar context. In your case it won't be perfect, because the bits that prevent BBCode tags from being mangled themselves have nonzero length.

That's one idea to be going on with.

'Nother idea. Assuming this isn't going to be in <pre> blocks where the content doesn't wrap normally anyway, after protecting bits that need protecting, just search for excessively long strings and slip breaks into them every 50 characters or so.

$wrapped_text = preg_replace('/(\S{50,})/e', "chunk_split('$1',50,'<br>')", $text);

is a first guess at the code.