[PHP] Re: Callin PHP gurus...figure this out

2002-04-26 Thread Uchendu Nwachukwu
Easy as pie. Firstly, make sure your TEXTAREA tab has the 'wrap' attribute set to 'hard'. You can set the number of characters per line by using the 'cols' attribute. So if you want to do a hard wrap every 75 characters, use . Next, in your PHP script, run the text through nl2br() to add the ta

[PHP] Re: Callin PHP gurus...figure this out

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Virnstein
this is wrong: > foreach ($lines as $line) { > if (strlen($line) > $maxchars) { > $newtext .= substr($line, 0, $maxchars)."\n"; > $newtext .= substr($line, $maxchars)."\n"; > } > } try this: foreach ($lines as $line) { if (strlen($line) > $maxchars) { $newtext

[PHP] Re: Callin PHP gurus...figure this out

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Virnstein
forgot the " to ' conversion: // this should do the job quite fine. $var = str_replace ("\"", "'", $var); Regards Michael "Michael Virnstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > if you want to write into the database, i wouldn't convert newli

[PHP] Re: Callin PHP gurus...figure this out

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Virnstein
if you want to write into the database, i wouldn't convert newline to . do this when you read from the database using nl2br($var) ot convert every newline in $var to . default after 75 characters if no was found before. if you don't care about word-splitting, you could do the following: //INSER