very basic php question

Hello all,

my php is not good. I have got wordwrap here. it works perfect.

$text=$row['description'];
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 100, "\n", true);
echo "$newtext\n";

PHP:

I want to use $newtext\n instead of $row['description'] in here aswell.

<td align="left"><?=substr($row['description'],0,500); ?></td>

PHP:

I do not know how to do. can anyone help me?

Thanks

 

<td align="left"><?=substr($newtext,0,500); ?></td>

PHP:

 

It does not work.

Thanks

 

Your syntax looks screwed, try this

<td align="left"><?php echo substr($newtext, 0, 500); ?></td>

Code (php):

 

it does not work either.

Thanks

 

Do you even know what substr does? and how to apply the $newtext?

 

I think he expects it to wrap in html, of course he needs to put <br>'s in instead of \n's

<td align="left"><?php echo ereg_replace("\n","<br>",substr($newtext, 0, 500)); ?></td>

PHP:

or

<td align="left"><?php echo nl2br(substr($newtext, 0, 500)); ?></td>

PHP:

 

I have got 2 pages.

1-listing
2-description

At the moment i am using this on description page

$text=$row['description'];$newtext = wordwrap($text, 100, "\n", true);echo "$newtext\n";

PHP:

it puts space if the word is longer than 100 character. It works perfect.


I am using this for listing page

<td align="left"><?=substr($row['description'],0,500); ?></td>

PHP:

I am limiting the content to 500 character. It works perfect.

But i get problem if there is words like dddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

to stop that i want to use

<td align="left"><?php echo substr($newtext, 0, 500); ?></td>

PHP:

but does not work.