If you want to do it on the php side, I would do something like this:

<a href="$fullURL">substr($fullURL, 0, 9)."..."</a>

It would provide a valid link using the full url, but chop off everything
after the 10th character and replace with a "...".

Nate

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:27 PM
> > To: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP] Splitting up long URLs
> >
> > I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin.
> > Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long
> > words, that force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the
> > page layout. Is there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a
> > string gets split up so this doesn't happen?
> >
> > If there's a CSS solution that's better than a PHP solution I'll take
> > that too.   :-)
>
> STFW: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space
>
> ...doesn't say much in the article about whether or not it will break up
> "words" rather than lines, but it's worth a shot.
>
>
> Todd Boyd
> Web Programmer
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