On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:26 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin. > Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long > words, that force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the > page layout. Is there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a > string gets split up so this doesn't happen? > > If there's a CSS solution that's better than a PHP solution I'll take > that too. :-) > For URLs you can do a tinyurl-type solution. Quite easy in fact. Just save the long url in a db table, along with a short url (say a 4-character random string). Then do a page that looks up the short url and redirects to a long url (eg. http://www.myblog.com/r?id=Sve7 redirects to http://www.veryverylongurl.com/blahblahblah.php). For extra points you can make the short url look like http://tiny.myblog.com/Sve7. Just remember to put the short url creation in a loop that checks that the short url isn't in the DB already and repeat if it is. For long words, you could explode the words into an array, and if the words are longer than a certain length, insert a hyphen and space for your wrap. Then just implode back into your string and bob's your uncle. Anyhow that's how I'd do it. J -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
