OK - I have been thinking about it - I think I worked it out with a
nested while loop - I am not really a programmer so I know this is
messy... so now I have another question.... here is what I have done to
basically achieve my objective:
<?php
$linestring="test arse bottom ass willy bum snake wadger tadger winkle
old-chap knob";
$linearray=split("[ ]",$linestring);
# Set variable to count through the array
$word="0";
# Set how many lines you want
$lines="3";
# The number of words in linestring
$stringlength="12";
# $linestring divided by $lines
$divlength=$stringlength / $lines;
$origdiv=$divlength;
while ($lines != 0)
{
while ($divlength != 0)
{
echo $linearray[$word]." ";
$divlength=$divlength-1;
$word=$word+1;
}
echo "<br>";
$lines=$lines-1;
$divlength=$origdiv;
}
As you can see - the main problem is that I don't know how to count the
number of words in linestring, I have had to specify stringlength
manually - which is a bit monkey. Any ideas how display the number of
variables in a php split array?
Chris
ho******@gmail.com wrote:
OK - here is what I want to do - but I am lost how to do it.
I have a variable
$mystring = "one two three four five six seven eight nine"
This variable $mystring can be 4 words long or it could be 50 words
long it is totally variable. What I want to do is take the number of
words in $mystring, divide by three and insert a <brat the end of
each "line".
Example: $mystring = "one two three four five six seven eight nine"
Convert to:
one two three<br>
four five six<br>
seven eight nine<br>
Example: $mystring = "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve"
Convert to:
one two three four<br>
five six seven eight<br>
nine ten eleven twelve<br>
I know I can use explode or strip with a field seperator of " " to
break the variable into component parts - but my non-programmer brain
is confused how I would do this.
Any assistance or pointers would be great... cheers,
Chris
