article problem

Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 24, 2005 Posts: 41

hi ,
i am having a problem which you must have noticed.whenever a user submits a news to my site ,and if the news contain long sentences and lines ,it just distorts the view of my site when it is published.i want the long lines to be cut to next lines so that it does not distort the look.how should i do this?
thanks.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

That sounds more like a theme issue. Try a default theme like DeepBlue or Sand_Journey. Does it still distort it?

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 7:51 pm

yes, it happens with all the themes.

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 7:56 pm

i have already submitted a long lines news to you.
test it and tell me

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:25 pm

In modules/News/index.php, in the function theindex(), try changing

Code:

   $hometext = $row[hometext];


   $bodytext = $row[bodytext];

to

Code:

   $ww = 95;


   $hometext = nl2br(wordwrap($row[hometext],$ww,"\n",1));


   $bodytext = nl2br(wordwrap($row[bodytext],$ww,"\n",1));

The $ww = 95; is the width that you will force all lines to. This is really ugly but I don't know of any other quick/easy way. Why are you faced with this problem? Are people intentionally trying to mess up your site? The only reason the test you sent me causes the problem is because of the long word, not long sentences. Regardless, you could enhance this by determining the browser width and then assigning the $ww value based on that. Or, you could break the story into words, check the length of each word, and then only chunk up that word, and then reassemble the story.