Re: [PHP] wrapping text
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 unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Wrapping text output
$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 table it should wrap the text automatically unless you tell the table not to wrap .. cheers, - Sebastian - Original Message - From: Philip J. Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | $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; | | echo $my_data; | | How can I make this wrap to the table? | | | -- | Philip J. Newman. | Head Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | -- | PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) | To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php | -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Wrapping text output
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; echo $my_data; How can I make this wrap to the table? Er: table width=330 trtd?=$my_data?/td/tr /table This text will wrap inside a table, according to every browser I've ever used. If you want to wrap for other purposes, eg email or raw text, then $my_data = wordwrap($my_data,65); will word-wrap at 65 characters, which is pretty pointless with variable width fonts, but okay with fixed width fonts. Justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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 are putting in a string of img...img...img... etc..then there's no where to break. Try putting a space before or after the img... when you replace the :P with it. And for the replacing, if the user does not edit the post, then do the conversion when they submit it. If they do edit it, then do it at run time. If there is editing involved, you want to present the text back to the user in the same format as they typed it, or otherwise they'll get confused. If there is no editing, then you'll save processor time by only doing the conversion once, instead of for every view. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Scott Reismanis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Wrapping Text Hi PHP digest readers. Ok I have a problem and a question which I am certain many share and even a solution to my problem, however I wish to hear how you dealt with this issue to see if there is a better method. Ok for my problem, it is regarding a smilie system. Currently what happens is if people post :P:P:P:P:P:P etc.. etc.. then the text field expands to an ugly length. My current solution which I don't really like is to limit the number of smiles which a person is allowed to use. Can anyone propose a better solution than this? i.e. wrap them using PHP or maybe I coded my html poorly which is why my table is expanding? Secondly my question on a similar note whether to convert smilies at runtime, or when a person submits a post? The beneifits at runtime is less space used in the DB, and no worring about converting the converted post back when it is needed to be edited, however with this method the server has to do more processing in converting smilies each time the post is viewed and vise versa. Thanks for your time, and I anticipate any light which can be shed on this issue. Scott -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text
Sorry I wasn't exactly clear on my explaination. I believe it is a table design issue because i tried putting spaces between the image tags. i.e. img ... img ... img ... img ... etc... and the table was still been stretched. my solution has since been to force a br (using wordwrap) but I would rather force a space which i can do but this does not seem to cause the streching to stop. I guess it is my tables as my site is designed to fit any res and as such does not have set pixel width tables. back to the drawing board for me then i guess :) 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 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 img...img...img... etc..then there's no where to break. Try putting a space before or afterthe img... when you replace the :P with it. And for the replacing, if the user does not edit the post, then do the conversion when they submit it. If they do edit it, then do it at run time. If there is editing involved, you want to present the text back to the user in the same format as they typed it, or otherwise they'll get confused. If there is no editing, then you'll save processor time by only doing the conversion once, instead of for every view. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Scott Reismanis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Wrapping Text Hi PHP digest readers. Ok I have a problem and a question which I am certain many share and even a solution to my problem, however I wish to hear how you dealt with this issue to see if there is a better method. Ok for my problem, it is regarding a smilie system. Currently what happens is if people post :P:P:P:P:P:P etc.. etc.. then the text field expands to an ugly length. My current solution which I don't really like is to limit the number of smiles which a person is allowed to use. Can anyone propose a better solution than this? i.e. wrap them using PHP or maybe I coded my html poorly which is why my table is expanding? Secondly my question on a similar note whether to convert smilies at runtime, or when a person submits a post? The beneifits at runtime is less space used in the DB, and no worring about converting the converted post back when it is needed to be edited, however with this method the server has to do more processing in converting smilies each time the post is viewed and vise versa. Thanks for your time, and I anticipate any light which can be shed on this issue. Scott Powered by telstra.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text
It should have a % for the width at least, and then it should wrap itself. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Scott Reismanis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text Sorry I wasn't exactly clear on my explaination. I believe it is a table design issue because i tried putting spaces between the image tags. i.e. img ... img ... img ... img ... etc... and the table was still been stretched. my solution has since been to force a br (using wordwrap) but I would rather force a space which i can do but this does not seem to cause the streching to stop. I guess it is my tables as my site is designed to fit any res and as such does not have set pixel width tables. back to the drawing board for me then i guess :) 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 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 img...img...img... etc..then there's no where to break. Try putting a space before or afterthe img... when you replace the :P with it. And for the replacing, if the user does not edit the post, then do the conversion when they submit it. If they do edit it, then do it at run time. If there is editing involved, you want to present the text back to the user in the same format as they typed it, or otherwise they'll get confused. If there is no editing, then you'll save processor time by only doing the conversion once, instead of for every view. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Scott Reismanis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Wrapping Text Hi PHP digest readers. Ok I have a problem and a question which I am certain many share and even a solution to my problem, however I wish to hear how you dealt with this issue to see if there is a better method. Ok for my problem, it is regarding a smilie system. Currently what happens is if people post :P:P:P:P:P:P etc.. etc.. then the text field expands to an ugly length. My current solution which I don't really like is to limit the number of smiles which a person is allowed to use. Can anyone propose a better solution than this? i.e. wrap them using PHP or maybe I coded my html poorly which is why my table is expanding? Secondly my question on a similar note whether to convert smilies at runtime, or when a person submits a post? The beneifits at runtime is less space used in the DB, and no worring about converting the converted post back when it is needed to be edited, however with this method the server has to do more processing in converting smilies each time the post is viewed and vise versa. Thanks for your time, and I anticipate any light which can be shed on this issue. Scott Powered by telstra.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text
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 of that 'word'. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * /* There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw. -- Walt Kelly */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: RE: [PHP] Wrapping Text
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 told him to put a space around his image tags. Then, with that space, and a % width, it should (?) wrap. I think he was ending up with a long 'word' like you were saying; only made of image tags. img src='foo.jpg'img src='foo.jpg'img src='foo.jpg' etc... so it would not wrap. img src='foo.jpg' img src='foo.jpg' img src='foo.jpg' etc... should wrap, though. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] wrapping text on a page display.
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 php4 yet, and it doesn't work with I upload. What is the php3 alternative please? The ascii between the ;'s is exactly this... One long line. ;I\'ll add details later. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country... The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back 12345 times... Of all the fishes in the sea, the mermaid is still the only one for me; I am using include() on a net fusion .php3 page to pull the php script to pull and print the text field. Thanks. Floyd You know there's an extra } in the first example for word wrap, under string functions in the manual..I'm still having trouble with it so I'd like someone else to take a crack at it too. Thanks.. Floyd -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Wrapping text to store in the database
check http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php you could also do a regex, searching for \n, and adding a P to it...adding the /P would make it a little more difficult... -jack -Original Message- From: Romulo Roberto Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 1:09 PM To: Php-General Subject: [PHP] Wrapping text to store in the database Hello! If a user drop a text like this in a textarea: --- the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 15th Regiment, A Company, seized a 44-car train in a tunnel 60 miles south of Salzburg, Austria. It contained an incalculable fortune in fine art, bullion, jewelry, furs, coins, stamp collections, cameras, china, linens, silver, Oriental rugs, furniture, and anything else of value that a pro-Nazi Hungarian government looted from Jewish households during World War II. The Nazis, who surrendered on May 8, 1945, had been hoping to send the goods westward toward Germany ahead of the Russian advance. It never made it. But neither did its contents revert to those who lost them, nor were they compensated, despite U.S. policy dictating that anything identifiable be returned to its nation of origin. U.S. officials decided that the train's booty couldn't be traced to Hungary's Jews, and over the Hungarian Jewish community's fierce protests, sold it at auction, at military exchanges, used it in government offices and officials' homes, and in some cases, simply stole it. --- 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 in html tags? --- pthe U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 15th Regiment, A Company, seized a 44-car train in a tunnel 60 miles south of Salzburg, Austria. It contained an incalculable fortune in fine art, bullion, jewelry, furs, coins, stamp collections, cameras, china, linens, silver, Oriental rugs, furniture, and anything else of value that a pro-Nazi Hungarian government looted from Jewish households during World War II./p pThe Nazis, who surrendered on May 8, 1945, had been hoping to send the goods westward toward Germany ahead of the Russian advance./p pIt never made it./p pBut neither did its contents revert to those who lost them, nor were they compensated, despite U.S. policy dictating that anything identifiable be returned to its nation of origin./p pU.S. officials decided that the train's booty couldn't be traced to Hungary's Jews, and over the Hungarian Jewish community's fierce protests, sold it at auction, at military exchanges, used it in government offices and officials' homes, and in some cases, simply stole it./p --- Ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Wrapping text to store in the database
On 08-May-01 Romulo Roberto Pereira wrote: Hello! If a user drop a text like this in a textarea: snip --- 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 in html tags? snip again Ideas? nl2br() Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Wrapping Text
one thing that would help is to str_replace("\n", "br");
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 text and it is saved
to a file. Then another script includes that. Unfortunately I can't find a
way for the textarea to wrap the text, or make it so it shows it they way
they typed it in. Any help would be appreciated
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Re: [PHP] Wrapping Text
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 split up as it's so long!)
Regards,
Philip
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, shaun wrote:
one thing that would help is to str_replace("\n", "br");
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 text and it is saved
to a file. Then another script includes that. Unfortunately I can't find a
way for the textarea to wrap the text, or make it so it shows it they way
they typed it in. Any help would be appreciated
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