HREF does not clear out old URL

[Anon]

Hello,

I am having some diffcutly assigning a varible to a HREF.

I have a page that sends URLS from a dynamically generated list to a PHP3 page. On this page is code to allow the user to select a specific link ( Code shown below)

<?php echo("<a href=$web>To link to this web site - click here</a>")

where $web might be www.funandgames.com

What happens is that when the link is selected the new URL looks like this:

www.mysite.com/forms/links.php3/www.funandgames.com

The new URL for the variable $web is appended to my existing HTML navigation string. Am I misunderstanding how to use the HREF in PHP3

Thank you
Loren

[Anon]

You need http:// (http://www.funandgames.com)
without that you are linking to the 'www.funandgames.com' file within same directory.

[Anon]

Thank you.

I redid the following line and it works as expected.

<?php echo("<a href=http://$web>click here</a>")

Loren