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Jul 5th, 2010

URL in PHP

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I need a help here, There's an error every time I add a link in my php file.
Example:

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<php
$link = "twitter.com";
echo "<a href = '".$link."'> link </a>";
?>
<php
$link = "twitter.com";
echo "<a href = '".$link."'> link </a>";
?>

on click, the address would be change on "http://localhost/project/twitter.com" whch is supposed to be "twitter.com"
I've tried placing

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<?php
$link = "twitter.com";
echo "<a href = '../../".$link."'> link </a>";
?>
<?php
$link = "twitter.com";
echo "<a href = '../../".$link."'> link </a>";
?>

but still it doesn't work. $link is stored in the database.
I'm new here. Please help me.

Last edited by helpmmeworld; Jul 5th, 2010 at 10:28 am. Reason: i forgot...

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Jul 5th, 2010

Re: URL in PHP

try like this

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$link = "www.twitter.com";
<a href ="<?=$link?>"> link </a>
$link = "www.twitter.com";
<a href ="<?=$link?>"> link </a>

Last edited by raju_boini525; Jul 5th, 2010 at 10:26 am.

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Re: URL in PHP

That happens because if you don't put a protocol in a link it will be interpreted as a subdirectory so if you want to make an external link you should put

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http://|https://|ftp://

etc so in your case it would be

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$link = "http://www.twitter.com";
<a href ="<?=$link?>"> link </a>
$link = "http://www.twitter.com";
<a href ="<?=$link?>"> link </a>

Last edited by ax8l; Jul 5th, 2010 at 11:35 am.

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Jul 6th, 2010

Re: URL in PHP

You can try these kind of things without www. or http:// in your browser but not with the codes, code strictly first refers to your local. So that only it retrieves your php localhost and tried from there.

Last edited by rajarajan07; Jul 6th, 2010 at 2:03 am.

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