Question

My problem is that I have quite a small area (div or span), in which one to about five words are displayed. However, the area is too small for some words (for instance “muziekgeschiedenis” will surpass the area’s bounds). Is there a way in PHP to wrap this word, but not solely based on number of characters? I can use wordwrap(), or just CSS properties for wordwrapping, but that may wrap this word into “muziekgeschiedeni-s”, which is not wanted. It should break into for instance “muziekgeschiede-nis”, based on syllables. Are there any PHP extensions that support word breaking/wrapping like this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

this is called “hyphenation” and this is the first link that google gives on “php hyphenation”

http://yellowgreen.de/phphyphenator

hope this helps