Func String Wordwrap

📅 2026-06-18 | 📂 PHP

PHP wordwrap() Function

Example

Wrap a string to a given number of characters:

<?php

 $str = "An example of a long word is: Supercalifragulistic";

 echo wordwrap($str,15,"<br>n");

 ?>

The wordwrap() function wraps a string to a given number of characters.

Note: This function may leave spaces at the start of the line.

wordwrap(string, width, break, cut)

Parameter	Description
string	Required. The string that needs to be wrapped.
width	Optional. The maximum line width. Default is 75.
break	Optional. The character used as the line break (word break character). Default is "n".
cut	Optional. Whether to cut words that are longer than the specified width: * FALSE - Default. Do not cut words * TRUE - Cut words

Return Value:	Returns the wrapped string if successful, FALSE if it fails.
PHP Version:	4.0.2+
Changelog:	The cut parameter was added in PHP 4.0.3.

Using all parameters:

<?php

 $str = "An example of a long word is: Supercalifragulistic";

 echo wordwrap($str,15,"<br>n",TRUE);

 ?>

Wrapping a string:

<?php

 $str = "An example of a long word is: Supercalifragulistic";

 echo wordwrap($str,15);

 ?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (view source):

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

 An example of a

 long word is:

 Supercalifragulistic

</body>

</html>

The browser output of the code above will be:

An example of a long word is: Supercalifragulistic