Manipulating a string in a table

Anon

I'm storing text fields in mysql. These fields are retrieved and in a table. However some of the fields are quite long, and I need to be able to wrap them so that they do not stretch across the whole length of the page in a table.

I tried using substr to split $description into smaller groups of 60 characters. Then in the table I just used <br /> to start a new line. This obviously resulted in some words being split in two.

What I really need is a way of spliting $description via the first white space after 60 characters, then the first space after 120 characters etc.

Thanks in advance for any help
Cheers
Chris

Anon

Hi,
why dont you usre the 'wrodwrap' feature of PHP as below?

$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap( $text, 20 );

echo "$newtext\n";

hope this helps
bye.
Saurabh