Wrapping Text at A Certain Line Length

You need to wrap lines in a string.

Use wordwrap(). By default, wordwrap() wraps text at 75 characters per line. 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="EN" lang="EN">
<head>
<title>PHP</title>
<meta Name="Author" Content="Hann So">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
$string = "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, concived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.";
echo "<pre>", wordwrap($string), "</pre>";
echo wordwrap($string, 50);
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>

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Strings | Introduction | Formatting Strings | Converting to and from Strings | Finding the Length of a String | Accessing Substrings | Extracting Substrings | Replacing Substrings | Taking Strings Apart | Processing a String One Byte at a Time | Reversing a String by Word or Byte | Controlling Case | Trimming Blanks from a String | Wrapping Text at A Certain Line Length
© 2008: Hann So
email: hso@voyager.deanza.edu