Keep text formatting ?

[wap3]

Hi guys,

I have a form which has a text field area, so the user can enter alot of text.

When the user presses enter inside this box, it obviously moves down a line.

This line spacing is kept in the database, to which it is stored.
But how do I keep this line spacing when I go to 'echo' it back into a table cell.

I can 'echo' it out but it just writes it in one long line.
Is there something you can do to keep the line spacing ??

:thumbsup:

[boywonder]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[missing-score]

If you want xhtml compliance (not sure if nl2br() does this) you may want to use preg_replace to use <br /> instead of <br>:



$text_value = preg_replace("/\\n/", "<br />", $text_value);

[Nightfire]

nl2br does use the xhtml way :)

[wap3]

Hi guys

thanks for that, it was just what I wanted. I have another problem now though.

If when the user is entering the text they enter a really long line of text which is more than 45 characters, it stretches my table layout and messes it up.
So I need it to check each line and if it is more than 45 characters to put a line break in.

I found the word wrap feature but it doesn't seem to work as I need it to.

This is what I have:

<?php foreach ($articles as $art)
$string = nl2br ($art[article_text]);
$newstring = wordwrap($string,45,"<br>");
echo "$newstring"; ?>


But it just outputs this:

Hi ya



/>

hi there
/>


hello again
over here this
time
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Instead of breaking the k's at 45 characters and it puts the /> in there for some reason.

any ideas ?

:confused:


P.S It doesn't break the k's like it has here they remain one long line

[missing-score]

<?php

foreach ($articles as $art)
{
$str = $art['article_text'];

$string = wordwrap($str, 45, "\n");
$string = nl2br($string);

echo $string;
}

?>


Try that.

[wap3]

No still doing the same thing missing score.

hmm

:confused:



No forget that its alright now. Its because it was all k's.

I just typed a load of junk, with some spaces as normal and it works ok now.

thanks guys

:thumbsup:

[missing-score]

But surely the whole point is that you want letters WITHOUT spaces to be wrapped.

[wap3]

No the point was to have the line breaks, which the user entered when inputting the data to appear when being echoed out.

And for php to automatically insert a line break after 45 characters as well.

Its going to be a sentence so will have spaces and thats fine.

sorry if I confused you :p

:thumbsup:

[missing-score]

So you want to count normal line breaks as well one every 45 chars, in the middle of words?

Why not just set:

<p align="justify"> and print it from there?