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Reputation: 55

how to link to other website with codeigniter

I'm new to codeIgniter. Can you tell me, how to link to other website url in codeIgniter?

I tired to do like this:

 <a href="www.google.com">google</a>

But instead it gives me this

 <a href="localhost/site-name/www.googlel.com">google</a>

It always refers to the base url, even though I don't echo base_url(); on the href.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 89

Answers (1)

Brian Gottier
Brian Gottier

Reputation: 4582

When creating links to external pages, you must prefix the URL with either http:// or https:// , like this:

<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

Technically this has little to do with CodeIgniter, but a difference between relative and absolute URLs.

If you did want to use CodeIgniter to generate the link, do this:

$this->load->helper('url');
echo anchor('http://www.google.com', 'Google');

Upvotes: 1

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