Avoiding url to add current url

Question

I am printing my custom URL's in footer which I am getting from database, Some thing like this Assume this contains www.google.com link.

 <li><a href="<?php echo $links['link_url']?>"><?php echo $links['title'] ?></a></li>

When I click on this link at footer, it redirecting with my current page URL

www.mydomainname.com/www.google.com

How can I avoid attaching my current domain name to it? It should be redirect to "www.google.com"

dmlittle · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-10 06:37:48Z

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The href attribute specifies the URL of the page you're linking to. If you don't provide a protocol to the URL it will assume it's a relative URL and therefore append it to your current path / URL. If you specify a protocol (such as http:// or https://) you'll be taking to the absolute URL. You want to link to use absolute URLs and not relative ones.

Add website url with protocol in your database.

e.g. http://www.google.com

So,it will redirect to google page.

edited Jul 10, 2015 at 6:37

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answered Jul 10, 2015 at 6:01

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