Wordwrap sometimes adds <br> after one word

[helz]

im using wordwrap on a simple messageboard, which works for those words that are longer than the specified width, except this now effects all the other posts with normal words, for instance:

Hello, i am
bobby
this is what i like to do: football and other
sports as well
as things like computers
and also
other
things

ive seen the user comments at the bottom of the wordwrap in the php manual except these are a little large for a simple probem, is there any way to insert a hyphen (-) and a newline character after a specified number of characters?

N.B
i think i understand that this might put a hyphen in between words like: th-
e
is there any way to check word length?

[planetsim]

Can we see the code your using to get this wordwrap?

You may need to extend the characters that before a linebreak.

[helz]

just using the built in function in php.

$text1 = wordwrap($text,60,"<br>\n",1);
$text is from the database