HTTP appending

dcjones

Hi guys

if I have a variabe with lets say: www.mysite.com

how do I append [url]HTTP://[/url] to the begining of it to make it

http://www.mysite.com

This may be simple to some but it has foxed me.

and yes I have looked in the manual but I cannot see a ref for it there.

Thanks in advance

DCJ

Quevas

$variable=www.mysite.com;

$variable="http://".$variable;

dcjones

This is the line of code I am trying to use

Hi , <a href="http://".$row<?= $row["web"] ?>><?= $row["web"] ?></a>

$row holds data that can change depending on which record in the database is selected.

if I click on the field which displays the $row variable all I get as a URL is " [url]http:///[/url]" yes 3 forward slashs. do you know what is wrong.

many thanks

DCJ

MrAlaska

Originally posted by dcjones
This is the line of code I am trying to use

Hi , <a href="http://".$row<?= $row["web"] ?>><?= $row["web"] ?></a>

That line of code has some problems. The fact that you are displaying $row inline implies that you are working inside a print or echo directive which would make your subsequent <?= ?> tags nested.

Aside from not working, that should have thrown a parse error at you, or made the actual text '$row" show up in your link if it was outside any echo or print directive.

Without knowing what you are doing it is hard to guess, but this might work better:
Hi , <a href="http://<?= $row['web'] ?>"><?= $row['web'] ?></a>