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Wrap text

quote_id	quote	auth_fn	auth_mn	auth_ln	subject
1	I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.	Anne		Sullivan	education
2	Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.	Arthur		Koestler	education
3	Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.	Edward		Everett	education
4	Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.	Albert		Einstein	education

Wrapping words

In this tutorial you can learn how to wrap from content from the database.

wrap_text.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Text Wrap</title>
</head>

<body>

<?
include("my_connection.php");

$myQuery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM my_quotes LIMIT 0, 10") or die (mysql_error());
while($myRow = mysql_fetch_object($myQuery)) {

$myOriginalText = $myRow -> quote;
$myWrappedText = wordwrap($myOriginalText, 25, "<br />");

echo "<p>" . $myWrappedText . "</p>";

}

?>

</div>
</body>
</html>

my_connection.php

<?php
mysql_connect("your-mySQL-server.yourdomain.com","your-user-name","your-password") or die ("your own error message");
mysql_select_db ("your-database-name") or die ("your own error message");
?>

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