Why is my URL prefixed on <a href ...> links? 1

[josel]

I came across this rather interesting problem/behavior.

For the sake of argument, lets say the local URL is

http://www.fpgroups.com

Displaying content from a MySQL table, one of the field holds an URL entry.

If the entry reads

http://www.casabellagallery.com

when shown on screen using following code:

echo '
<td><a href="' . $row["MemberURL"] . '" target="_new">' . $row["MemberURL"] . '</a></td>';

PHP appears to add (as a prefix) the local URL thus attempting to open URL as

http://www.fpgroups.com/www.casabellagallery.com

Why is this?

I edited the field and changed it to

http://www.casabellagallery.com

and it does what's expected ... no prefix is added to the URL.

Regards,


Jose Lerebours


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[Vragabond]

This is not PHP but rather HTML. If you specify a protocol in your link reference, it is assumed that you want to point to a local resource. The URL could be a valid folder on your server and so it will assume that is what you want. Only if you specify a protocol it will know that your link is a different website. You can try that with a static file as well (just type

http://www.google.com

into href="" for a link in an html file and the same will happen).

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[josel]

That makes sense. I edited my code to check for if http:// is part of field ... if not, adds it in ... otherwise, it does nothing.

Thanks,


Jose Lerebours


KNOWLEDGE: Something you can give away endlessly and gain more of it in the process! - Jose Lerebours