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Millhorn
Millhorn

Reputation: 3166

How to make a link from a database result appear as hyperlink?

I have a database, which when queried, can return results that sometimes contain a web address. If there is an address in the results, it will always be located in the "Location" field of the database.

Currently, when the results return, it returns as a line of text (which the user would have to copy/paste into a browser window).

How do I make it return a hyperlink, instead of just a line of text?

Here's my PHP...

if(mysql_num_rows($raw_results) > 0){ // if one or more rows are returned do following

            while($results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results)){
            // $results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results) puts data from database into array, while it's valid it does the loop

                echo "<p><strong><u><h2>".$results['SchoolName']."</h2></u></strong>".$results['text']."</p>";
                echo "<p><strong>Location:</strong>&nbsp;".$results['SchoolLocation']."".$results['text']."</p><br />";
                echo "<p><strong>Notes:</strong>&nbsp;".$results['SchoolNotes']."".$results['text']."</p><br /><br /><br />";
                // posts results gotten from database(title and text) you can also show id ($results['id'])
            }

        }
        else{ // if there is no matching rows do following

            echo "<br /><br /><br /><strong><h2>"."This is great news! The school you searched for is NOT on our Illegitimate High School List..."."</h2></strong>";
        }

    }
    else{ // if query length is less than minimum
        echo "Minimum length is ".$min_length;
    }
?>

I did some research and found this, but I don't see how to apply it to my situation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1743

Answers (1)

Nikola Kirincic
Nikola Kirincic

Reputation: 3757

Assuming that your field name from DB is Location: 

echo "<p><strong>Location:</strong>&nbsp;<a href='".$results['Location']."' target='_blank'>".$results['SchoolLocation']."</a>".$results['text']."</p><br />";

Upvotes: 1

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