wordwrap() woes

[neophyte]

Hello All -

Got a problem with wordwrap() when using it to wrap text with spaces between words for output in a plain text email.

Testing email client is outlook 2010.

I'm calling the function like so:

$bodyText = wordwrap($temp['Text'], 70, "\n", FALSE);

Now, if I put in a long long string of characters WITHOUT SPACES, the function wraps everything nicely to 70 chars as expected.

BUT, if it's a paragraph of regular text including spaces, it doesn't wrap the line at all.

I've seen some discussion regarding utf-8 strings and have tried some of those function alternatives but, unfortunately, with the exact same result as php's own wordwrap function.

So, I'm at a loss - can anyone let me know what's going on and how I can fix this?

[incrediBILL]

First thing I would try is changing your fourth parameter 'cut' to TRUE and see if that changes anything.

If it doesn't, provide a sample of working and non-working code including the text being used.

[neophyte]

Hello Bill -

Thanks for your reply.

Tried setting cut to TRUE - same result.

Interesting though... I tried to just echo two strings (one with and one without spaces) using BR as the brake character (cut = TRUE) and it worked perfectly on both strings.

See test code below.

So, this had got me thinking that this is an email client thing, so I tried using "\r\n" (rather than simply "\n") but I got the same result: string with spaces didn't break; string with no spaces broke as expected.

I'm not processing the text in any way before I'm email it which has really got me stumped.

Anybody got any ideas?

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Test Code - Screen Display

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$textSpace = 'Morbi ligula risus, accumsan sit amet, interdum hendrerit, pellentesque in, erat. Sed condimentum, justo ut consequat tincidunt, mauris felis pulvinar lectus, non dignissim eros mauris ac velit.';

$textNoSpace = 'Morbiligularisus,accumsansitamet,interdumhendrerit,pellentesquein,erat.Sedcondimentum,justoutconsequattincidunt,maurisfelispulvinarlectus,nondignissimerosmaurisacvelit.';

$text1 = wordwrap($textSpace, 70, "<br>", TRUE);

$text2 = wordwrap($textNoSpace, 70, "<br>", TRUE);

echo $text1 , '<br><br>' , $text2;

[coopster]

So it's not likely the word wrapping that is the issue but the way you are sending the email? Are you certain it is being sent and arriving as plain text email?

[neophyte]

Hi Coopster - and others.

I was tinkering around this again this morning and then noticed that little "warning" line in the Outlook header of the resulting text email: "extra line breaks were removed".

Oh man!

Clicked the "restore line breaks option" and all is well with everything.

Why in the world would Outlook tinker with plain-text line breaks in the first place?

Oh well... sorry to everyone for this bother.

Neophyte