wordwrap

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5, PHP 7)

wordwrap — Wraps a string to a given number of characters

Description

string wordwrap ( string $str [, int $width = 75 [, string $break = "\n" [, bool $cut = false ]]] )

Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character.

Parameters

str: The input string.
width: The number of characters at which the string will be wrapped.
break: The line is broken using the optional break parameter.
cut: If the cut is set to TRUE, the string is always wrapped at or before the specified width. So if you have a word that is larger than the given width, it is broken apart. (See second example). When FALSE the function does not split the word even if the width is smaller than the word width.

Return Values

Returns the given string wrapped at the specified length.

Examples

Example #1 wordwrap() example


<?php
$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");

echo $newtext;
?>

The above example will output:

The quick brown fox<br />
jumped over the lazy<br />
dog.

Example #2 wordwrap() example


<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", true);

echo "$newtext\n";
?>

The above example will output:

A very
long
wooooooo
ooooord.

Example #3 wordwrap() example


<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooooooooord. and something";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", false);

echo "$newtext\n";
?>

The above example will output:

A very
long
woooooooooooooooooord.
and
something

User Contributed Notes

Dave Lozier - dave at fusionbb.com

10 years ago


If you'd like to break long strings of text but avoid breaking html you may find this useful. It seems to be working for me, hope it works for you. Enjoy. :)



<?php

    function textWrap($text) {

        $new_text = '';

        $text_1 = explode('>',$text);

        $sizeof = sizeof($text_1);

        for ($i=0; $i<$sizeof; ++$i) {

            $text_2 = explode('<',$text_1[$i]);

            if (!empty($text_2[0])) {

                $new_text .= preg_replace('#([^\n\r .]{25})#i', '\\1  ', $text_2[0]);

            }

            if (!empty($text_2[1])) {

                $new_text .= '<' . $text_2[1] . '>';    

            }

        }

        return $new_text;

    }

?>

Alhadis

1 year ago


For those interested in wrapping text to fit a width in *pixels* (instead of characters), you might find the following function useful; particularly for line-wrapping text over dynamically-generated images.

If a word is too long to squeeze into the available space, it'll hyphenate it as needed so it fits the container. This operates recursively, so ridiculously long words or names (e.g., URLs or this guy's signature - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe+585,_Senior) will still keep getting broken off after they've passed the fourth or fifth lines, or whatever.

<?php

    /**
     * Wraps a string to a given number of pixels.
     * 
     * This function operates in a similar fashion as PHP's native wordwrap function; however,
     * it calculates wrapping based on font and point-size, rather than character count. This
     * can generate more even wrapping for sentences with a consider number of thin characters.
     * 
     * @static $mult;
     * @param string $text - Input string.
     * @param float $width - Width, in pixels, of the text's wrapping area.
     * @param float $size - Size of the font, expressed in pixels.
     * @param string $font - Path to the typeface to measure the text with.
     * @return string The original string with line-breaks manually inserted at detected wrapping points.
     */
    function pixel_word_wrap($text, $width, $size, $font){

        #    Passed a blank value? Bail early.
        if(!$text) return $text;

        #    Check if imagettfbbox is expecting font-size to be declared in points or pixels.
        static $mult;
        $mult    =    $mult ?: version_compare(GD_VERSION, '2.0', '>=') ? .75 : 1;

        #    Text already fits the designated space without wrapping.
        $box    =    imagettfbbox($size * $mult, 0, $font, $text);
        if($box[2] - $box[0] / $mult < $width)    return $text;

        #    Start measuring each line of our input and inject line-breaks when overflow's detected.
        $output        =    '';
        $length        =    0;

        $words        =    preg_split('/\b(?=\S)|(?=\s)/', $text);
        $word_count    =    count($words);
        for($i = 0; $i < $word_count; ++$i){

            #    Newline
            if(PHP_EOL === $words[$i])
                $length    =    0;

            #    Strip any leading tabs.
            if(!$length) $words[$i]    =    preg_replace('/^\t+/', '', $words[$i]);

            $box    =    imagettfbbox($size * $mult, 0, $font, $words[$i]);
            $m        =    $box[2] - $box[0] / $mult;

            #    This is one honkin' long word, so try to hyphenate it.
            if(($diff = $width - $m) <= 0){
                $diff    =    abs($diff);

                #    Figure out which end of the word to start measuring from. Saves a few extra cycles in an already heavy-duty function.
                if($diff - $width <= 0)    for($s = strlen($words[$i]); $s; --$s){
                    $box    =    imagettfbbox($size * $mult, 0, $font, substr($words[$i], 0, $s) . '-');
                    if($width > ($box[2] - $box[0] / $mult) + $size){
                        $breakpoint    =    $s;
                        break;
                    }
                }

                else{
                    $word_length    =    strlen($words[$i]);
                    for($s = 0; $s < $word_length; ++$s){
                        $box    =    imagettfbbox($size * $mult, 0, $font, substr($words[$i], 0, $s+1) . '-');
                        if($width < ($box[2] - $box[0] / $mult) + $size){
                            $breakpoint    =    $s;
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }

                if($breakpoint){
                    $w_l    =    substr($words[$i], 0, $s+1) . '-';
                    $w_r    =    substr($words[$i],     $s+1);

                    $words[$i]    =    $w_l;
                    array_splice($words, $i+1, 0, $w_r);
                    ++$word_count;
                    $box    =    imagettfbbox($size * $mult, 0, $font, $w_l);
                    $m        =    $box[2] - $box[0] / $mult;
                }
            }

            #    If there's no more room on the current line to fit the next word, start a new line.
            if($length > 0 && $length + $m >= $width){
                $output    .=    PHP_EOL;
                $length    =    0;

                #    If the current word is just a space, don't bother. Skip (saves a weird-looking gap in the text).
                if(' ' === $words[$i]) continue;
            }

            #    Write another word and increase the total length of the current line.
            $output    .=    $words[$i];
            $length +=    $m;
        }

        return $output;
    };

?>

ju1ius

4 years ago


Another solution to utf-8 safe wordwrap, unsing regular expressions.
Pretty good performance and works in linear time.

<?php
function utf8_wordwrap($string, $width=75, $break="\n", $cut=false)
{
  if($cut) {
    // Match anything 1 to $width chars long followed by whitespace or EOS,
    // otherwise match anything $width chars long
    $search = '/(.{1,'.$width.'})(?:\s|$)|(.{'.$width.'})/uS';
    $replace = '$1$2'.$break;
  } else {
    // Anchor the beginning of the pattern with a lookahead
    // to avoid crazy backtracking when words are longer than $width
    $pattern = '/(?=\s)(.{1,'.$width.'})(?:\s|$)/uS';
    $replace = '$1'.$break;
  }
  return preg_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}
?>
Of course don't forget to use preg_quote on the $width and $break parameters if they come from untrusted input.

Marcin Dobruk [zuku3000 at yahoo dot co dot uk]

6 years ago


Word wrap from left to right (standard) and from right to left.



<?php

function myWordWrap ($string, $length=3, $wrap=',', $from='left') {

    if ($from=='left') $txt=wordwrap($string, $length, $wrap, true);

    if ($from=='right') {

        // string to array

        $arr_l=array();

        for ($a=0;strlen($string)>$a;$a++) $arr_l[$a]=$string{$a};

        // reverse array

        $arr_r=array_reverse($arr_l);

        // array to string

        $string_r='';

        foreach ($arr_r as $arr_line => $arr) $string_r.=$arr;

        // add wrap to reverse string

        $string_r=wordwrap($string_r, $length, $wrap, true);

        // reverse string to array

        $arr_r=array();

        for ($a=0;strlen($string_r)>$a;$a++) $arr_r[]=$string_r{$a};

        // reverse array again

        $arr_l=array_reverse($arr_r);

        // string with wrap

        $txt='';

        foreach ($arr_l as $arr_line => $arr) $txt.=$arr;

        }

    return $txt;

    }

?>

$del=' at '; 'sanneschaap' dot $del dot 'gmail dot com'

8 years ago


These functions let you wrap strings comparing to their actual displaying width of proportional font. In this case Arial, 11px. Very handy in some cases since CSS3 is not yet completely supported. 100 strings = ~5 ms



My old sheep word wrap function (posted at the bottom of this page, is kinda old dated and this one is faster and more accurate).



<?php

//the width of the biggest char @

$fontwidth = 11;



//each chargroup has char-ords that have the same proportional displaying width

$chargroup[0] = array(64);

$chargroup[1] = array(37,87,119);

$chargroup[2] = array(65,71,77,79,81,86,89,109);

$chargroup[3] = array(38,66,67,68,72,75,78,82,83,85,88,90);

$chargroup[4] = array(35,36,43,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,60,61,62,63, 69,70,76,80,84,95,97,98,99,100,101,103,104,110,111,112, 113,115,117,118,120,121,122,126);

$chargroup[5] = array(74,94,107);

$chargroup[6] = array(34,40,41,42,45,96,102,114,123,125);

$chargroup[7] = array(44,46,47,58,59,91,92,93,116);

$chargroup[8] = array(33,39,73,105,106,108,124);

    

//how the displaying width are compared to the biggest char width

$chargroup_relwidth[0] = 1; //is char @

$chargroup_relwidth[1] = 0.909413854;

$chargroup_relwidth[2] = 0.728241563;

$chargroup_relwidth[3] = 0.637655417;

$chargroup_relwidth[4] = 0.547069272;

$chargroup_relwidth[5] = 0.456483126;

$chargroup_relwidth[6] = 0.36589698;

$chargroup_relwidth[7] = 0.275310835;

$chargroup_relwidth[8] = 0.184724689;



//build fast array

$char_relwidth = null;

for ($i=0;$i<count($chargroup);$i++){

    for ($j=0;$j<count($chargroup[$i]);$j++){

        $char_relwidth[$chargroup[$i][$j]] = $chargroup_relwidth[$i];

    }

}



//get the display width (in pixels) of a string

function get_str_width($str){

    global $fontwidth,$char_relwidth;

    $result = 0;

    for ($i=0;$i<strlen($str);$i++){

        $result += $char_relwidth[ord($str[$i])];

    }

    $result = $result * $fontwidth;

    return $result;    

}



//truncates a string at a certain displaying pixel width

function truncate_str_at_width($str, $width, $trunstr='...'){

    global $fontwidth,$char_relwidth;        

    $trunstr_width = get_str_width($trunstr);

    $width -= $trunstr_width;

    $width = $width/$fontwidth;

    $w = 0;

    for ($i=0;$i<strlen($str);$i++){

        $w += $char_relwidth[ord($str[$i])];

        if ($w > $width)

            break;    

    }

    $result = substr($str,0,$i).$trunstr;

    return $result;

    // texas is the reason rules at 10am :)

}

?>

Peter

9 years ago


The main concern when you have a text in a cell is for long words that drags the cell margins. This function will break words in a text that have more then $nr characters using the "-" char.



<?php

function processtext($text,$nr=10)

    {

        $mytext=explode(" ",trim($text));

        $newtext=array();

        foreach($mytext as $k=>$txt)

        {

            if (strlen($txt)>$nr)

            {

                $txt=wordwrap($txt, $nr, "-", 1);

            }

            $newtext[]=$txt;

        }

        return implode(" ",$newtext);

    }

?>

bruceboughton @ google mail

10 years ago


I found that wordwrap deletes the spaces it wraps on. If you want to break up a string which doesn't consist of words, you may find this behaviour undesirable, as I did when trying to wordwrap a Regular Expression to 80 characters (for display along with test string, matches, etc.).

To preserve the spaces and still achieve a consistent cut length, you need to replace spaces with a suitable one-character replacement. I chose the ASCII non-printing character SUB (ASCII #26; some old telephone code meaning substitute):

<?php
$regex= str_replace(' ', chr(26), $regex);
$regex= wordwrap($regex, 80, '<br />', TRUE);
$regex= str_replace(chr(26), ' ', $regex);
?>

(Of course, you need to replace 80 with your column length and '<br />' with your break string)

frans-jan at van-steenbeek dot R-E-M-O-V-E dot net

10 years ago


Using wordwrap is usefull for formatting email-messages, but it has a disadvantage: line-breaks are often treated as whitespaces, resulting in odd behaviour including lines wrapped after just one word.

To work around it I use this:

<?php
 function linewrap($string, $width, $break, $cut) {
  $array = explode("\n", $string);
  $string = "";
  foreach($array as $key => $val) {
   $string .= wordwrap($val, $width, $break, $cut);
   $string .= "\n";
  }
  return $string;
 }
?>

I then use linewrap() instead of wordwrap()

hope this helps someone

r dot hartung at roberthartung dot de

7 years ago


I was wondering about my CMS to break up code but only non-HTML code - I didn't found anything so I came up with this little solution:



<?php

function wordWrapIgnoreHTML($string, $length = 45, $wrapString = "\n")

   {

     $wrapped = '';

     $word = '';

     $html = false;

     $string = (string) $string;

     for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i+=1)

     {

       $char = $string[$i];

       

       /** HTML Begins */

       if($char === '<')

       {

         if(!empty($word))

         {

           $wrapped .= $word;

           $word = '';

         }

         

         $html = true;

         $wrapped .= $char;

       }

       

       /** HTML ends */

       elseif($char === '>')

       {

         $html = false;

         $wrapped .= $char;

       }

       

       /** If this is inside HTML -> append to the wrapped string */

       elseif($html)

       {

         $wrapped .= $char;

       }

       

       /** Whitespace characted / new line */

       elseif($char === ' ' || $char === "\t" || $char === "\n")

       {

         $wrapped .= $word.$char;

         $word = '';

       }

       

       /** Check chars */

       else

       {

         $word .= $char;

         

         if(strlen($word) > $length)

         {

           $wrapped .= $word.$wrapString;

           $word = '';

         }

       }

     }



    if($word !== ''){

        $wrapped .= $word;

    }

     

     return $wrapped;

   }



$str = '<a href="http://www.example.de">';

$str .= 'Test-STRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING</a>';

$str .= '<!-- COMMENT_INSIDE_ANOTHER';

$str .= '_LONG_STRING //-->';



echo wordWrapIgnoreHTML($str, 25, '[BREAK]');



// Output: <a href="http://www.roberthartung.de">

// Test-STRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRI[BREAK]

// IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

// </a><!-- ... //-->

?>





[NOTE BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a bug fix provided by (jaw AT condidact DOT dk) on 02-APR-09 to address an issue where "the last word in a non-html-wrapped string will be omitted."]

zac dot hester at gmail dot com

1 year ago


I recently ran into the issue discussed by another contributor to this function (frans-jan at van-steenbeek dot R-E-M-O-V-E dot net).  The problem appeared to be how wordwrap() was treating white space.  Instead of writing my own version of wordwrap(), I discovered that the "break" parameter is not only used as the inserted string, but also used to detect the existing wrap delimiters (e.g. line endings).  If you can manage to "normalize" the wrap delimiters in your original string, you don't need to try to work-around the function wrapping at seemingly odd places (like immediately after one short word).  As one quick-and-dirty way to get wordwrap() to play nicely with most use-cases, I did this:

<?php
$break = strpos( $content, "\r" ) === false ? "\n" : "\r\n";
$content = wordwrap( $content, 78, $break );
?>

I also tend to normalize multi-line strings (if my OCD is acting up).  You would typically perform this conversion _before_ sending it off to wordwrap().

<?php
//quick and simple, but clobbers old-style Mac line-endings
$content = str_replace( "\r", '', $content );

//slower, but works with everything
$content = preg_replace( "/(\r\n|\r)/", "\n", $content );

//now, wordwrap() will behave exactly as expected
$content = wordwrap( $content, 78, "\n" );
?>

phil_marmotte at yahoo dot fr

1 year ago


Another Word wrap from left or right :

public static function myWordWrap ($string, $length=3, $wrap=',', $from='left') { 
        if ($from=='left') $txt=wordwrap($string, $length, $wrap, true); 
            if ($from=='right') {
                $m = strlen($string)%$length;
                if ($m < strlen($string))
                    $txt = substr($string,0,$m).$wrap.wordwrap(substr($string,$m),$length, $wrap, true); 
                else
                    $txt = $string;
            }

            return $txt;
       }

Edward

9 years ago


I needed a function to justify the text - not just wrap it. I came up with this:



<?php

function justify($text, $width, $break) {

        $marker = "__$%@random#$()__";



        // lines is an array of lines containing the word-wrapped text

        $wrapped = wordwrap($text, $width, $marker);

        $lines = explode($marker, $wrapped);

        

        $result = "";

        foreach ($lines as $line_index=>$line) {

                $line = trim($line);

                

                $words = explode(" ", $line);

                $words = array_map("trim", $words);

                $wordcount = count($words);

                $wordlength = strlen(implode("", $words));

                

                if (3*$wordlength < 2*$width) {

                        // don't touch lines shorter than 2/3 * width

                        continue;

                }

                

                $spaces = $width - $wordlength;

                

                $index = 0;

                do {

                        $words[$index] = $words[$index] . " ";

                        $index = ($index + 1) % ($wordcount - 1);

                        $spaces--;

                } while ($spaces>0);

                

                $lines[$line_index] = implode("", $words); 

        }

        

        return implode($break, $lines);

}

?>

Ivan Lisnik

5 years ago


here is my example of UTF-8 wordwrap
<?php
function wordwrap($str, $width, $break)
{
    $return = '';
    $br_width = mb_strlen($break, 'UTF-8');
    for($i = 0, $count = 0; $i < mb_strlen($str, 'UTF-8'); $i++, $count++)
    {
        if (mb_substr($str, $i, $br_width, 'UTF-8') == $break)
        {
            $count = 0;
            $return .= mb_substr($str, $i, $br_width, 'UTF-8');
            $i += $br_width - 1;
        }
        
        if ($count > $width)
        {
            $return .= $break;
            $count = 0;
        }
        
        $return .= mb_substr($str, $i, 1, 'UTF-8');
    }
    
    return $return;
}
?>

kozimbek at mail dot ru

11 months ago


After searching and being tired of many non-working mb_wordwrap functions at many places, I finally created a really simple and working solution

<?php
function mb_wordwrap($string, $limit)
{
    $string = strip_tags($string); //Strip HTML tags off the text
    $string = html_entity_decode($string); //Convert HTML special chars into normal text
    $string = str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), "", $string); //Also cut line breaks
    if(mb_strlen($string, "UTF-8") <= $limit) return $string; //If input string's length is no more than cut length, return untouched
    $last_space = mb_strrpos(mb_substr($string, 0, $limit, "UTF-8"), " ", 0, "UTF-8"); //Find the last space symbol position

    return mb_substr($string, 0, $last_space, "UTF-8").' ...'; //Return the string's length substracted till the last space and add three points
}
?>

The function simply searches the last space symbol in the range and returns the string cut till that position. No iterations, no regular expressions and no buffer overload. Tested with large Russian texts and works perfectly.

maikuolan at gmail dot com

3 years ago


(Re: kouber at php dot net).

Testing out your function, I can confirm that it works, and it works very well.

However, others that intend to use your function need to be aware that if they use it in conjunction with unverified data (such as raw user input from $_POST, $_GET, etcetera), they are creating potential attack vectors that can be exploited by hackers via script requests containing malicious code. This is because your function is using the preg_replace function in conjunction with the "e" flag (in order to allow the chunk_split bit to execute), which can allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution: If there is any possibility that $str may contain unverified data (such as raw user input), ensure that the contents of $str is sanitized (such as by using htmlentities/htmlspecialchars/etc) prior to sending it to wrap($str,...).

Not a criticism; I intend to use your function, because I like it. However, just posting this as a note to other users that may not be aware of the importance of data sanitation.

joachim

8 years ago


There seems to be a difference between php 5.1 and 5.2 in how wordwrap counts characters (all on Mac OSX 10.5.2):

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php --version
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Sep  8 2006 10:25:04)

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php -r 'echo wordwrap("In aller Freundschaft (50)_UT", 20) . "\n";'
In aller
Freundschaft
(50)_UT

php --version
PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Feb 20 2008 12:30:47) 

php -r 'echo wordwrap("In aller Freundschaft (50)_UT", 20) . "\n";'
In aller
Freundschaft (50)_UT

nbenitezl[arroba]gmail[dot]com

5 years ago


Hi, this function is like wordwrap but it ignores html tags, it works like wordwrap when called with fourth parameter as true. It's based on a function I find here but improved to closer match the output of wordwrap (i.e. removed spaces at start of line) and also to improve performance. 

Hope it can be useful for you :-)
<?php
function htmlwrap(&$str, $maxLength, $char='<br />'){
    $count = 0;
    $newStr = '';
    $openTag = false;
    $lenstr = strlen($str);
    for($i=0; $i<$lenstr; $i++){
        $newStr .= $str{$i};
        if($str{$i} == '<'){
            $openTag = true;
            continue;
        }
        if(($openTag) && ($str{$i} == '>')){
            $openTag = false;
            continue;
        }
        if(!$openTag){
            if($str{$i} == ' '){
                if ($count == 0) {
                    $newStr = substr($newStr,0, -1);
                    continue;
                } else {
                    $lastspace = $count + 1;
                }
            }
            $count++;
            if($count==$maxLength){
                if ($str{$i+1} != ' ' && $lastspace && ($lastspace < $count)) {
                    $tmp = ($count - $lastspace)* -1;
                    $newStr = substr($newStr,0, $tmp) . $char . substr($newStr,$tmp);
                    $count = $tmp * -1;
                } else {
                    $newStr .= $char;
                    $count = 0;
                }
                $lastspace = 0;
            }
        }  
    }

    return $newStr;
}
?>

php at maranelda dot org

7 years ago


Anyone attempting to write a text email client should be aware of the following:

<?php

$a = "some text that must wrap nice";

$a = wordwrap($a, 9);

echo $a;

//  some text
//  that must
//  wrap nice

$a = wordwrap($a, 9);

echo $a;

//  some text
//  that
//  must
//  wrap
//  nice

?>

Subsequent uses of wordwrap() on already wrapped text will take the end-of-line characters into account when working out line length, thus reading each line that just fit nicely the first time around as being one character too long the second. This can be a problem when preparing a text email that contains (eg.) a forwarded email which has already been word-wrapped.

Solutions below which explode() the text on end-of-lines and wordwrap() the resulting strings separately take care of this nicely.

ytwguru at gmail dot com

4 years ago


I've seen a few solutions to the same problem.  Here's a solution to breaking long text with a space.  In this case it breaks after matching 27 characters.

$content = preg_replace("/([^\s]{27})/", "$1 ", $content); 

You can probably write a function for this...

info at hsdn dot org

4 years ago


Wordwrap with UTF-8 supports, returns as array.

<?php

function mb_wordwrap_array($string, $width)
{
    if (($len = mb_strlen($string, 'UTF-8')) <= $width)
    {
        return array($string);
    }

    $return = array();
    $last_space = FALSE;
    $i = 0;

    do
    {
        if (mb_substr($string, $i, 1, 'UTF-8') == ' ')
        {
            $last_space = $i;
        }

        if ($i > $width)
        {
            $last_space = ($last_space == 0) ? $width : $last_space;
    
            $return[] = trim(mb_substr($string, 0, $last_space, 'UTF-8'));
            $string = mb_substr($string, $last_space, $len, 'UTF-8');
            $len = mb_strlen($string, 'UTF-8');
            $i = 0;
        }

        $i++;
    }
    while ($i < $len);

    $return[] = trim($string);

    return $return;
}

?>

paul at preinheimer dot com

4 years ago


If your goal is to allow a browser to word-wrap nicely, while maintaining a fluid layout, you'll want to break with: &#8203

It's a zero width space character: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space

This way the browser can break where it needs to, without adding a visual distraction of spaces within the text. 

e.g.
<?php
//Using &#8203; here allows the browser to break the line of text, without the visual distraction. 
$line = wordwrap($line, 10, "&#8203;", true);
?>

#PROTIP: leave a comment, so the next person to read your code has a clue what you've done.

altin_bardhi at yahoo dot co dot uk

5 years ago


Here I have come out with a possibly very useful wordwrap code snippet.

Apparently what this piece of code does is: it takes the entered text and looks for words longer than the defined ‘$chunk_length’ if it finds any, it splits the long words and then it concatenates the whole string back to a new string with longer words separated by a dash character in this case.

After it has accomplished this task it then inserts an HTML line break after a specified ‘$line_length’ (Depending on your containers width requirements)

<?php

//Start function explode_ wrap 
function explode_wrap($text, $chunk_length, $line_length){

//Explode all the words separated by spaces in a string
$string_chunks = explode(' ', $text);

// Get each split word from the array $sring_chunks_array => key => value
foreach ($string_chunks as $chunk => $value) {

if(strlen($value) >= $chunk_length){

//Split the chunks/words which are longer than $chunk_length
$new_string_chunks[$chunk] = chunk_split($value, $chunk_length, ' - ');

}else {

//Do not split the normal length words
$new_string_chunks[$chunk] = $value;

}

}//End foreach loop

//Concatenate back the all the words
$new_text=implode(' ', $new_string_chunks);

return wordwrap($new_text, $line_length, '<br />');

}//End function

?>

kouber at php dot net

5 years ago


If you need a function to cut only words longer than N characters, feel free to use the function below:



<?php

function wrap($str, $width=75, $break="\n") {

  return preg_replace('#(\S{'.$width.',})#e', "chunk_split('$1', ".$width.", '".$break."')", $str);

}



echo wrap('aaaa bbb cc dddd-dddd', 3, ' ');

?>



The above example will output: "aaa a  bbb  cc ddd d-d ddd "

ojs-hp at web dot de

6 years ago


After I got some problems with my function to convert a BB-text into HTML. Long words didn't really fit into the layout and only wordwarp() also added breaks to words which would fit into the layout or destroy the other HTML-tags....
So this is my solution. Only words with strlen() >= 40 are edited with wordwarp().

<?php
function bb2html($bb) {
        $words= explode(' ', $bb); // string to array
    foreach ($words as $word) {
        $break = 0;
        for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($word); $i++) {
            if ($break >= 40) {
                $word= wordwrap($word, 40, '-<br>', true); //add <br> every 40 chars
                $break = 0;
            }
            $break++;

        }
        $newText[] = $word; //add word to array
    }
    $bb = implode(' ', $newText); //array to string
    return $bb;
}
?>

Matt at newbiewebdevelopment dot idk

7 years ago


My version of multibyte wordwrap

<?php
function mb_wordwrap($string, $width=75, $break="\n", $cut = false) {
    if (!$cut) {
        $regexp = '#^(?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xFF][\x80-\xBF]+){'.$width.',}\b#U';
    } else {
        $regexp = '#^(?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xFF][\x80-\xBF]+){'.$width.'}#';
    }
    $string_length = mb_strlen($string,'UTF-8');
    $cut_length = ceil($string_length / $width);
    $i = 1;
    $return = '';
    while ($i < $cut_length) {
        preg_match($regexp, $string,$matches);
        $new_string = $matches[0];
        $return .= $new_string.$break;
        $string = substr($string, strlen($new_string));
        $i++;
    }
    return $return.$string;
}

$mb_string = "こんにちは";//Hello in Japanese
$cut_mb_string = mb_wordwrap($mb_string,1," ",true); //こ ん に ち は
print($cut_mb_string);
?>

wordwrap

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