Word wrapping in php

[AnilM823]

Hi all,

I'm working on designing a forum. I'm using PHP, with a mysql database, displaying the user-input results in a formatted table. Pretty standard. My questions concerns word wrapping. Normally, when the data reached the end of the table, it'll wrap to the next line. However, when people post links, the link itself will not wrap around (as it is all basically one word) and will cut right through the table's border, completely destroying my display. This is a strange problem actually in the sense that I do not see this happening with Internet Explorer, only with firefox. Now I know I can use wordwrap(), but the problem with this is it'll add an extra space before the start of the next line, so if someone were to copy and paste the link, it would render the link useless. How can I get around this problem?

Thanks!

[adamalton]

I don't think there is an easy solution. If you look on the wordwrap() page of the php manual (on www.php.net) you will see that lots of people have posted their own methods for getting round the problem. Personally I find wordwrap() totally useless.

One solution would be to use regular expressions - using preg_replace() - to shorten the TEXT of the links, but leave the href in tact. E.g.....

Your user posts:
Hey check this cool site, http://www.really_long_url.com/really_long.

And you replace it with:[HTML]Hey check this cool site,
<a href="http://www.really_long_url.com/really_long">http://www.really_lo....</a>[/HTML]

[AnilM823]

Interesting suggestion. I'll give it a shot, thanks