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Praishgm
Praishgm

Reputation: 131

How to provide external link using echo in php?

I am trying to store some link in database, for example www.google.com. Lets say after pulling the value from database I stored it in $url. Now, I am trying to set the link by doing 

echo "<a href=$url>link</a>"

Now, the problem - whenever I click on the link the links goes to www.mydomain.com/www.google.com

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2085

Answers (2)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 3806

This might depend on the browser, but links are always relative and outbound links should include the correct http or https protocol specification.

Upvotes: 2

andy
andy

Reputation: 2399

You have to add http:// to the beggining of the link. EG:

 echo "http://$url";

:)

Upvotes: 5

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