Question

When a word gets to long it messes the text up…. how can I fix this?

Example:

Make a word with 4 chars like “cats” into “ca…”

How would I do this?

Answer 1

Do you mean words get too long, and they widen the column it’s in? You could use a regular expression to fix it: Perhaps find any consecutive string of e.g. 200 non-whitespace characters and insert a space so that it can break to a new line there:

$text = preg_replace('/(\S{200})/gs', '\1 ', $text);

EDIT: To loka’s question: Similarly,

$text = preg_replace('/(\S{200})\S*/gs', '\1...', $text);