Posted by jsd219 on 05/28/07 20:51

On May 28, 3:47 pm, jobo...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:16:42 GMT, "Steve Belanger"
>
>
>
> <desk...@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.
>
> ><i...@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 ishttp://abc.comand 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.

Well, i just added the http:// to the address and everything worked,
so i think what i will do is hardcode in the http:// so the client
only has to put www.xxx.xxx

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