how to auto break lines?

[bigviolet]

Hello;
I send long texts into the database via a form which includes textareas. Then I want to get that content in a new file. However, there are very long lines which I can't limit either by table width or another method. I use <pre>...</pre> tags as well in the output file but that works as long as I manually break the lines while the text is still in the form, which is quite impractical as I paste the text into the textarea from another source, such as ms-word. Is there a method to limit the line lenght that is retrieved from the database?

[tanyagarg9695]

Depends if theres a break in the words, I would just use wordwrap like above post said, or if there is space use nl2br

[car rental cyprus]

<?php
// Limit $summary to how many characters?
$limit = 100;

// your database query here
...
....

....
..

if (strlen($query) > $limit)
$query = substr($query, 0, strrpos(substr($query, 0, $limit), ' ')) . '...';
echo $query;
?>

Hope this helps...