count lines within a div

[wmabear54]

Hi All
I have a question about php, is there a function that would count the lines of output within a div so that I can calculate the height in px of the div so when it is printed to the browser that I can recalulate the height of the two columns on the right and left like so height:<?php echo (0 + $v1 + $v2); ?>px; and then the same variable would be assigned inside the additions for the top:<?php echo (150 $v1+ $v2); ?>px;. The $v1 is the one I am working on now, $v2 will be used for another additions. I could use mb_strlen() but this may not be as accurate as the number of lines.

Thanks in advance
Mike

[Deep13]

echo substr_count ($string,"
");

each line will have
in order to print the text in new line...

so you will get No. of
and then you can do whatever you want with it...

I hope this is what you wanted...

Deep

[wmabear54]

Hi Deep13

Thanks that is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank again
Mike

[brucepainter]

This solution looks like it would work in some situations, but what the line of text being written to the browser wraps? There won't be a
tag to count?

For your purposes that may not matter I don't know, but I wanted to bring that up in case someone else had a solution that took that into account as well.

[Deep13]

Originally Posted by brucepainter

This solution looks like it would work in some situations, but what the line of text being written to the browser wraps? There won't be a
tag to count?

For your purposes that may not matter I don't know, but I wanted to bring that up in case someone else had a solution that took that into account as well.

Oh yes, there might be other options too coz php has lot of functions...

2nd thing...
you need to specifly atleast one identifier which says this is new line...

it can be
or any other character (.) which is not used for any other purpose in the text.

otherwise i don't know whether it will be possible for php to identify or not..

Deep