RE: [PHP] BREAK into the DB <-- SOLVED

Thanks Martin. Greg just told me in private to look for nl2br and through that I found wordwrap() (without "_") which helped me. Thanks to both of you. C. > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Towell [mailto:martin.towell@world.net] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:06 AM > To: 'César Aracena'; 'PHP General List' > Subject: RE: [PHP] BREAK into the DB > > there's a function "word_wrap()" (or is it "wordwrap()", something like > that > anyway) that'll help you there. > > -----Original Message----- > From: César Aracena [mailto:icaam@icaam.com.ar] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:00 PM > To: 'PHP General List' > Subject: [PHP] BREAK into the DB > > > Hi all. I have this DB where I'm storing this sometimes large amount of > text into a TEXT field, but I can't seem to find the way to BREAK lines > so it won't make my browser go 3000 pixels wide when that text is > printed. About this, I have two questions: > > 1) What should I use to break the text into lines at the DB so HTML can > read them fine? and > 2) How should I make the TEXT INPUT BOX so the visitor doesn't have to > type <br> or something after 20 words or so? Is there a way that PHP can > count and break text strings by itself prior storing? > > Thanks in advance, > > Cesar Aracena > CE / MCSE+I > Neuquen, Argentina > +54.299.6356688 > +54.299.4466621 > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php