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 Posted by joboils on 05/28/07 20:47 
On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:16:42 GMT, "Steve Belanger" 
<desktop@ebinformatique.com> wrote: 
 
>you could have the users put the http:// inside their links, or manually  
>adding it in the code before you place the link value inside the href  
>attribute of the link tag. 
> 
> 
><info@musiclanerecording.com> wrote in message  
>news:1180382783.518274.319420@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... 
>> hello all, if anyone out there could help me i would really appreciate 
>> it. i am very much a novice coder. I have a site we are building and 
>> we have created a section in the admin area to allow the client to add 
>> external links to their web site. the problem we keep running into is 
>> the links that get generated have the home page url in front. 
>> 
>> ie. lets say the web site address is http://abc.com and i create an 
>> external link called xyz. the url i put in the link generator is  
>> www.xyz.com 
>> but what happens is the script spits out a link with this url: 
>> http://abc.com/xyz.com. 
>> 
>> below is the script: 
>> 
>> //include external links 
>> $query = "SELECT LINK_HREF, LINK_NAME 
>> FROM LINK"; 
>> 
>> $lresult = mysql_query($query); 
>> 
>> if (mysql_num_rows($lresult) == 0) 
>> { 
>> echo 'Verses being update.'; 
>> } 
>> else 
>> { 
>> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($lresult, MYSQL_ASSOC)) 
>> { 
>> print "{$trOpen}" . "<a href=\"{$row['LINK_HREF']}\">" . 
>> "{$row['LINK_NAME']}" . "</a>" . "{$trClose}"; 
>> } 
>> } 
>> 
>> If anyone could help i would be very grateful 
>> 
>> God bless 
>> jason 
>>  
> 
 
Not everyone will input a url in the format to suit you, so better 
write a line to *remove* the "http://" from the input so that your 
adding http:// to the output will not double up.
 
  
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