Re: [PHP] wrapping text

2005-08-13 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Folks are complaining mail arrives and text will not wrap. $message comes directly from a textarea. Old mail readers, I guess? How can I make their life better and make the text wrap? http://www.php.net/wordwrap -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Wrapping text output

2003-03-21 Thread Justin French
on 22/03/03 3:57 PM, Philip J. Newman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > $my_data = "This is a really long string that could go on for ever and ever > and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and > ever and ever and ever and don't wrap to my table it makes it bigger"; > >

Re: [PHP] Wrapping text output

2003-03-21 Thread Sebastian
$my_data = wordwrap( $my_data, 50 ); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php it'll wrap after 50 charcters... change "50" to what you want it to start wrapping at. If $my_data is inside a it should wrap the text automatically unless you tell the table not to wrap .. cheers, - Sebastia

RE: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2002-04-28 Thread John Holmes
> > It should have a % for the width at least, and then it should wrap > > itself. > > Not necessarily, if you have a single 'word' (a string of characters with > no > space) that is very long then the width of the table stretches to > accomodate > the length of that 'word'. Right, that's why I

Re: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2002-04-28 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 29 April 2002 01:53, John Holmes wrote: > It should have a % for the width at least, and then it should wrap > itself. Not necessarily, if you have a single 'word' (a string of characters with no space) that is very long then the width of the table stretches to accomodate the length o

RE: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2002-04-28 Thread John Holmes
t; cheers for the suggestion > > - Original Message - > From: "John Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:36 am > Subject: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text > > > Wordwrap() might be a good solution for you, but it's probably > &g

Re: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2002-04-28 Thread Scott Reismanis
"John Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:36 am Subject: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text > Wordwrap() might be a good solution for you, but it's probably > more of a > table design issue. The table needs some whitespace to break to a new > line. If you a

RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2002-04-28 Thread John Holmes
Wordwrap() might be a good solution for you, but it's probably more of a table design issue. The table needs some whitespace to break to a new line. If you are putting in a string of etc..then there's no where to break. Try putting a space before or after the when you replace the :P with it. A

Re: [PHP] wrapping text on a page display.

2001-05-21 Thread Floyd Baker
On Mon, 21 May 2001 12:57:13 -0400, you wrote: > > >Hello.. Sorry, I know this is a constant problem.., at least for me. > >Now I am using 'text' to store big inputs. It does not wrap on the >screen display... > >I have it working on my machine with wordwrap with php4. >The isp does not have

RE: [PHP] Wrapping text to store in the database

2001-05-08 Thread Don Read
On 08-May-01 Romulo Roberto Pereira wrote: > Hello! > > If a user drop a text like this in a textarea: > > --- > > As you can see the text is simple and there are not any html tags. How do I > do to add this elements so the text become something like this below, I mean > how to wrap it up i

RE: [PHP] Wrapping text to store in the database

2001-05-08 Thread Jack Dempsey
check http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php you could also do a regex, searching for \n, and adding a to it...adding the would make it a little more difficult... -jack -Original Message- From: Romulo Roberto Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 1:09 P

Re: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2001-04-07 Thread Philip Olson
Or better yet, use nl2br() : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php Regarding the html WRAP attribute, this little tutorial looks interesting : http://www.web-wise-wizard.com/html-tutorials/ html-form-forms-textarea-wrap.html (note: it's one link, had to

Re: [PHP] Wrapping Text

2001-04-07 Thread shaun
one thing that would help is to str_replace("\n", ""); I think textarea has a wrap attribute doesn't it? On Wednesday 04 April 2001 13:20, Chris Anderson wrote: > I've been having large problems with this so I decided to ask you guys(and > gals ^_^). I have a textarea where you can type your t