Splitting a string between multiple lines. When you are splitting a string to go on multiple lines we want to split the string where it does not break a word onto different lines. This to to make the string easier to read. In this example I was generating a PDF and needed to split a title of something onto 3 different lines so the text did not s…

Split string on words.php

  public function split_title($title,$maxStr)
	{

		$newStr = Array();
    		$maxLines=3;
		$lineNum = 1;  //to be line 1,2, or 3
   		$split = explode ( " ", $title);
		
		foreach($split as $str)
		{
			if(strlen($newStr[$lineNum] ." " . $str) > $maxStr && $lineNum !=$maxLines)
			{
				$lineNum++;
			}
			
			$newStr[$lineNum] .= " " . $str;
			
		}
		
		return $newStr;

	}