how to auto break lines?

Hello;
I send long texts into the database via a form which includes textareas. Then I want to get that content in a new file. However, there are very long lines which I can't limit either by table width or another method. I use <pre>...</pre> tags as well in the output file but that works as long as I manually break the lines while the text is still in the form, which is quite impractical as I paste the text into the textarea from another source, such as ms-word.

Is there a method to limit the line lenght that is retrieved from the database?

 

What about pre-processing the text with wordwrap()?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php

 

Depends if theres a break in the words, I would just use wordwrap like above post said, or if there is space use nl2br

Glen

 

try the nl2br function:
$text = nl2br($text_to_auto_break_lines)

 

Thank you very much. It worked perfectly.

 

string wordwrap ( string $str [, int $width = 75 [, string $break = "\n" [, bool $cut = false ]]] ) this line is suitable for auto