force wordwrap a string

[astralaaron]

I want to force a word wrap like this:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Synook]

You can force a break after a certain amount of characters with a regular expression. There is also a CSS property but it is not well-implemented.

preg_replace("/([^\s]{100})([^\s])/i", "$1 $2", $string);

[Ingolme]

There's already a pre-existing PHP function for it: http://php.net/wordwrapIt's used like this:

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

Which outputs

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