CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phphtmlcodeigniterhtml-listscharacter
Eujinks
Eujinks

Reputation: 400

in php/html using CodeIgniter, how do I limit the amount of line space a list item takes up

I have a list item and the value of this string item comes from a php command, how would I limit the amount of characters in this li allowed on an actual line. E.g. say I had a variable

$foo = 'tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt'

then I have (in html)

<ul>
<li> <?php echo $foo; ?> </li>
</ul>

How would I make it so only (say) 7 characters were allowed on the line so instead of printing 

tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

It would print something like
ttttttt
ttttttt
ttttttt
etc etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 102

Answers (2)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 20469

use css wordwrap:

<style>
ul {width:30px;}
li.wrap{word-wrap: break-word;}
</style>
<ul>
    <li>ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff</li>
    <li class="wrap">ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff</li>
</ul>

Live example:

http://jsfiddle.net/3kd8xhyz/

Or if you want a php only solution use str_split and implode:

$a = 'fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff';

echo implode(PHP_EOL, str_split($a, 7));

Here the constant PHP_EOL is used to insert carriage returns every 7 chars. You could instead use a space ' ' or an html line break '<br>' depending on requirements

Live example:

http://codepad.viper-7.com/iCbNJQ

Upvotes: 2

deviloper
deviloper

Reputation: 7240

$len = strlen($foo); $i = 0;
while($len>0){
echo substr($foo, $i, 7)."<br>";
$i += 7;
$len -=7;
}

Upvotes: 1

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