<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >wordwrap</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="vsprintf" HREF="function.vsprintf.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Sybase functions" HREF="ref.sybase.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.vsprintf.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.sybase.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.wordwrap" ></A >wordwrap</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN91998" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.2)</P >wordwrap -- Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN92001" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >wordwrap</B > ( string str [, int width [, string break [, int cut]]])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a string with <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >str</I ></TT > wrapped at the column number specified by the (optional) <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >width</I ></TT > parameter. The line is broken using the (optional) <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >break</I ></TT > parameter. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >wordwrap()</B > will automatically wrap at column 75 and break using '\n' (newline) if <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >width</I ></TT > or <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >break</I ></TT > are not given. </P ><P > If the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >cut</I ></TT > is set to 1, the string is always wrapped at the specified width. So if you have a word that is larger than the given width, it is broken apart. (See second example). <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >cut</I ></TT > parameter was added in PHP 4.0.3 </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN92032" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >wordwrap()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."; $newtext = wordwrap( $text, 20 ); echo "$newtext\n";</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > This example would display: </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN92038" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN92041" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2. <B CLASS="function" >wordwrap()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$text = "A very long woooooooooooord."; $newtext = wordwrap( $text, 8, "\n", 1); echo "$newtext\n";</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > This example would display: </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN92047" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >A very long wooooooo ooooord.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.nl2br.html" ><B CLASS="function" >nl2br()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.vsprintf.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.sybase.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >vsprintf</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Sybase functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >