How to break a text into the next line in php?

Question

i have this project which is blog type where I pull posts submitted from the server. The problem is that when the post is echo(ed) the text goes all in one line , how do I make it go to the next line after certain length?

Here is the code where the text is being posted

$postpost = $result["post_user"];
echo " <b>name</b> = " .$result["username"] ."<br>";
echo " <b>post</b> = " .$result["post"] . "<br>";
echo " <b>date</b> = ".$date["date"]. " 
<br><br>----------------------<br><br>";

and here is the output problem

Answer 1

Use wordwrap() :

// the 80 is the number of characters after which to break:
echo " <b>post</b> = " . wordwrap($result["post"], 80, '<br>') . '<br>';

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