How to wrap long text strings, as in a URL.

[noisenet]

Script URL: http://www.nineyearsunder.com/main.html
Version of script: Version: 1.34
Version of PHP: PHP Version 4.3.11
Hosting company: Unknown
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First, I used the main page in the URL above because it is a framed site and I have it scripted so that if someone accesses any of the pages without the frameset, it automatically redirects to the main.html file. So at this URL, just click the "Board" menu item.

The question is this - when a guest visits and enters their website URL, if it is a long URL, the string will not wrap to a new line which, in turn, blows the TD widths, causing the comments cell to be crammed and hard to read. I have tried specifying exact pixel values for the cells as well as a few PHP wrap functions I've found online. But since I'm very inexperienced with PHP (or any real programming syntax), I've not been able to figure out how to implement it.

Thank you in advance for your assistance and your fine library of scripts.

Steve

[Henrie]

Hello Steve,

I have two solutions for you.

1. The most easy one is to add the following to the table.entries style in the file style.css

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table-layout:fixed;

The style will now look like this.

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table.entries {
	color : black;
	font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	BORDER-RIGHT: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-LEFT: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-TOP: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-BOTTOM: #23559C 1px solid;
	table-layout:fixed;
}

This will prevent long words (and url's) to mess up the layout.
A disadvantage is that a long url is displayed behind the comments text.

2. Edit some code in the GBook.php file
Change line 565 (Gbook version 1.34)

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echo '<a href="go.php?url='.$url.'" target="_blank" class="smaller">'.$url.'</a>';

to

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$url2 = wordwrap($url, 18, "\n", 1);
echo '<a href="go.php?url='.$url.'" target="_blank" class="smaller">'.$url2.'</a>';

You can enter the number of characters after which a break is inserted by changing 18 to your desired number.
Disadvantage of this method is that it breaks exactly after the number of characters so a word can be broken in the middle.

You can also use both methods at the same time.

Greetings,
Henrie