I have the following code:
echo "<li style='font-size:10pts;' class='news-item'>
<a href='$link'>(".date("D, d M Y", strtotime($date)).") $description</a>
</li>";
and the database field value for link is:
www.yahoo.com
Now when the echo statement above is executed, and I click on the link shown on page, it doesn't go to www.yahoo.com, but rather to www.mydomain.com/www.yahoo.com. This of course results in not found 404. How can I solve this please?
If you dont add http:// in front of your link, It will be executed as a directory:
echo "<li style='font-size:10pts;' class='news-item'>
<a href='http://{$link}'>(".date("D, d M Y", strtotime($date)).") $description</a>
</li>";
Or put http://www.yahoo.com/ in your database and use your original script.
Put into database link with http://
add http or https ahead of link href.
$var = 'www.yahoo.com';
if(strpos($var, 'http://') !== 0) {
return 'http://' . $var;
} else {
return $var;
}
Try this,
$link = "http://".$link;
<a href='".$link."'>(".date("D, d M Y", strtotime($date)).") $description</a>
You have to add http:// to the beginning otherwise it is relative to the current location
Your $link = "www.yahoo.com"
your code <a href='$link'>
then output <a href='www.yahoo.com'>
When you use tag a href attribute should be <a href='http://www.yahoo.com'>
to link to other domain.
