Long word Filter

Is there a function in php or css to stop people posting huge long words.

If someone posts a word on my forum that has a huge amount of charaters then it will keep going on one line forever, can this be stopped?

Thanks

 

Try this PHP code:

$char_limit = 30; // number of characters allowed
$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $text);
if (is_array($words))
	foreach ($words as $v)
		if (strlen($v) > $char_limit) {
			// do something because a word has more than specified number of characters.
		}

PHP:

Best o' luck.

 

How would I insert a space after every 24 characters using this?

 

Here goes, as a function.. a little sloppy, but it works:

// Usage: <?= long_word_spacer($comment_text, $character_limit); ?>

function long_word_spacer($text, $char_limit = 24) {
	$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $text);
	if (is_array($words))
	    foreach ($words as $v) {
	        $r = "";
			if (strlen($v) > $char_limit) {
				for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($v); $i++) {
					if ($c++ == $char_limit) {
						$r .= $v[$i]." ";
						$c = 0;
					} else $r .= $v[$i];
				}
				$text = str_replace($v, $r, $text);
	        }
		}
	return $text;
}

PHP:

You can replace the " " with a "<br>" or "\n" if you feel so inclined.

 

I totally forgot about PHP's word_wrap function (http://us2.php.net/wordwrap). Check out this cleaner variation of the same function:

function long_word_spacer($text, $char_limit = 24) {
	$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $text);
	if (is_array($words)) {
		foreach ($words as $k => $v) {
			if (strlen($v) > $char_limit) $v = wordwrap($v, $char_limit, " ", true);
			$r .= $v." ";
		}
		return $r;
	} else {
		return wordwrap($text, $char_limit, " ", true);
	}
}

PHP:

There you go.

 

Perfect Thanks

 

function word_split($text, $char_limit = 24) {
    
    $words =  str_word_count($text, 1);
    
    foreach ($words as $v) {
        
        $r .= (strlen($v) > $char_limit)? wordwrap($v, $char_limit, ' ', true).' ':$v.' ';  

    }//end for loop
    
    return $r;
    
}//end word_split function

PHP:

 

Very cool php-lover. I've never used str_word_count before. Props.