wordwrap() function to wraps the string after a width in PHP

Wrap long text

wordwrap() inserts a chosen break string at a specified width. Set the optional cut flag only when long words may be broken.

$text = 'PHP string functions are useful for text processing.';
echo wordwrap($text, 18, "\n");

The examples below show additional variations, expected output and practical usage.

$str="Welcome to Plus2net.com PHP Section to learn about PHP built-in string functions";
echo  wordwrap($str);

Output is here

Welcome to Plus2net.com PHP Section to learn about PHP built-in string functions

Syntax

wordwrap($input_string, 75, "\n", false)

Parameter	DESCRIPTION
$input_string	Required : Input string
$width	Optional : ( default : 75 ) The number of chars after which the string will be wrapped.
$break	Optional : ( default '\n' ) To be used as line break.
$cut	Optional : Boolean ( True or False ). TRUE : String is wrapped at or before the $width FALSE :( default ) String is wrapped after the word ( no split of word )

Output is wrapped string

Let us try some examples There is a default line break ( '\n') after string and before function words. This is not visible so we will modify the script by using nl2br() like this.

$str="Welcome to Plus2net.com PHP Section to learn about PHP built-in string functions";
echo  nl2br(wordwrap($str));

Output is here

Welcome to Plus2net.com PHP Section to learn about PHP built-in string
functions

Using parameters $width and $break

The default width is 75 characters and the default break string is \n. Here we use an HTML <br> break and a width of 20.

$str="Welcome to Plus2net.com PHP Section to learn about PHP built-in string functions";
echo  wordwrap($str,20,'<br>');

Output is here

Welcome to
Plus2net.com PHP
Section to learn
about PHP built-in
string functions

Using parameters $cut

In above output there is no split of word at the end of the line. This is because of default value of $cut as FALSE. Check the code now.

$str="Welcome to Plus2net.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
echo  wordwrap($str,20,'<BR>');

Output is here

Welcome to
Plus2net.com
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Now let us make $cut = True

$str="Welcome to Plus2net.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
echo  wordwrap($str,20,'<BR>',true);

Welcome to
Plus2net.com
abcdefghijklmnopqrst
uvwxyz

With $cut set to true, a word longer than the selected width may be split.
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wordwrap(): Wrap the string to given chars

Wrap long text

Using parameters $width and $break

Using parameters $cut

Subhendu Mohapatra