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[Lang]

Ok, so someone posts a comment. Its along the lines of

"This is so COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL"

And completely destroys my beautiful page.

I've tried wordwrap(); didn't work. Does anyone know of a way I can split stupid things like that up?

Thanks in advance,

[DanWilliamson]

<?php

$string = "HERE IS THE TEXT";

$regex = "/([0-9]{0,2}:[0-9]{0,2})(STUFF HERE/";
$replace = "<br />$1$2";

$filter = preg_replace($regex, $replace, $string);

$entries = explode("<br />", $filter);
sort($entries);
unset($entries[0]);

foreach ($entries AS $entry)
	{
	echo $entry . "<br />";
	}

?>

I have no idea if this will work. I edited off somebody elses REGIX script, I do not understand it fully.

Edited by DanWilliamson, 07 May 2006 - 05:25 PM.

[Av-]

Cant you just do something like

if(str_len($string) > 20){
$string = substr($string, 0, 18).'...';
}

if the word is longer than 20 charaters, it will strip it down to 18 characters and add 3 dots at the end.

Why didnt wordwrap work btw?
i think thats the ideal solution for this problem, i think this is what they made it for after all.

[Lang]

Avalanche, on May 7 2006, 06:50 PM, said:

Cant you just do something like

if(str_len($string) > 20){
$string = substr($string, 0, 18).'...';
}

if the word is longer than 20 charaters, it will strip it down to 18 characters and add 3 dots at the end.

Why didnt wordwrap work btw?
i think thats the ideal solution for this problem, i think this is what they made it for after all.

I have no idea why wordwrap didn't work =P If I knew that I would be finding an answer to it =P

And DanWilliamson, I tried that piece of code and it didn't work. Some comments didn't even show up.

[EDIT] I got the piece of code to work by removing unset($entries[0]);

I really don't know why that was there. But it got rid of the first entry in the array which seemed stupid.

Edited by Lang, 07 May 2006 - 07:00 PM.

[coolaid]

show us the way you used wordwrap.

[Av-]

hey, btw, cant you just use CSS so the column does not expand

<td style"table-layout:fixed;">

try that

[Lang]

echo wordwrap($text, 150);

Thanks for that Avalanche, i'll try that too. If I used that it'd lower file size.

[coolaid]

150 is too big, thats probably why

[Av-]

i think you confused 150 pixels with 150 characters.

[Lang]

I didn't actually use 150. Its just a number I plugged in there.