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How to split text into pages?

May 23rd, 2009

Hi ,

I have a text field in a table and i would like to split it into pages for viewing pleasure. I know how to split it into set of pages if it is in rows. But i couldn't get clue how to split a lengthy text field into pages which is present in a single column of a table.
Any ideas or guidance will be very helpful to me.

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Re: How to split text into pages?

May 23rd, 2009

well you could use a paginator
and count the number of words in the entire 'book' then each word i part of an array and you just output a certain number of array items per page.....specified in the paginator settings.

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Re: How to split text into pages?

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Originally Posted by sacarias40

well you could use a paginator
and count the number of words in the entire 'book' then each word i part of an array and you just output a certain number of array items per page.....specified in the paginator settings.

Thank you for the quick reply.
What actually is a paginator? Is it a set of code lines? i googled little after seeing your post about it.
Do you recommend any specific paginators?
OR
shall i make use of some string syntax to count total words in a text and split it into number of words resulting in a page? If i follwo this method, then it might result in awkward splitting where it might break a sentence even before it ends.
So.. if i use somthing like display till a full stop is encountered , then if a code is present then

again its a problem.

Please suggest something. Thank you.

Last edited by csharplearner; May 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 pm.

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Re: How to split text into pages?

May 23rd, 2009

you could go like this.....

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$string = 'this is a small sample sentence that should be split up';
$words = explode(' ', $string);
 
for($i = 0; $i = count($words); $i++){
echo $words[$i] . '<br />';
}
$string = 'this is a small sample sentence that should be split up';
$words = explode(' ', $string);

for($i = 0; $i = count($words); $i++){
echo $words[$i] . '<br />';
}