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i am writing a php code that displays text from a database.
how would i make the text auto break <br /> after a certain amount of chars?
please help asap. thanks

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tcollins412

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Can you give some example code for us to have an idea regarding your script?

lyrico

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Hi
If its to format the output from the database would you not be better using css to wrap the text placed in a container??

You can wrap text using php using the following

<?php
$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");

echo $newtext;
?>

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nuttyniall

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Hi,
You can use the given code for auto break.It will automatically add br tag to the string.
<?php $string = nl2br($string); ?>

The above code will help you

rajvinoth

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Hi,
You can use the given code for auto break.It will automatically add br tag to the string.
<?php $string = nl2br($string); ?>
The above code will help you

YES I agree with you just simply call this function

[B]nl2br()[/B]

it will make line breaks on your record to a new line.

kuink

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Simply use <br> tag in php code. For example, $myvar .= $Row.'<br>';

johnsteve.bravo

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none of those are working

tcollins412

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The last code i gave wraps nearest word to index 20 of the string
The following code will split the line and insert the break after the 20th character

<?php
$text = "lets have a look how many chars before this breaks the string and inputs a line break";
$newtext = chunk_split($text, 20, "<br />\n");
 echo $text."<br/>";
echo $newtext;
?>

OUTPUT

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body


lets have a look how many chars before this breaks the string and inputs a line break<br/> 
lets have a look how<br /> 
 many chars before t<br /> 
his breaks the strin<br /> 
g and inputs a line <br /> 
break<br /> 

</body>

</html>

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