Urls

[Platoon_Leader]

When Member signup on my ladder they have to have a home page, if they use http://www.whatever.com the link works ok when you click on it on the members profile page, but if they just use www.whatever.com the link adds my web site url to the front of there url so you get something like http://www.euro-flashpoint-league.com/euro_league/www.epj.cz which is no good.

This is the code I'm using to call the url on the members profile page.

$url = $row["url"];
if ($url == "n/a") {
$urllink = "n/a";
}
else {
$urllink = "<a href='$url'>$url</a>";
}

<td width="20%" bgcolor="<?php echo"$color4" ?>" align="left" nowrap><p class="text"><font color="#FFFCC"><?php echo "$urllink" ?></font></td>

How can i get it to show go to the correct url if they dont use [url]http://?[/url]

[dalecosp]

$url = $row["url"];
if ($url == "n/a") {
$urllink = "n/a";
}
else {
$urllink = "<a href='$url'>$url</a>";
$urllink = ereg_replace("www", "http://www", $urllink);
}

Bit of a kludge, perhaps, but it works. HTH,

[dalecosp]

Hmm, though, forgot to take into account those who did it correctly the first time....hold the phone!

[dalecosp]

$url = $row["url"];
if ($url == "n/a") {
$urllink = "n/a";
}
else {
$urllink = "<a href='$url'>$url</a>";
$check = ereg("http://", $urllink);
if (!$check) {
        $urllink = ereg_replace("www", "http://www", $urllink);
        }
}

Now it works either way. Looks most definitely a kludge, though; if Ednark
or Weedpacket was around, they could probably get it in a oneliner.....

G'luck!

[Platoon_Leader]

Thanks a lot dalecosp that works just fine.

[lostcarpark]

Just in case it's helpful to anybody:

$urllink = ereg_replace("^www", "http://www", $urllink);

The "^" means it will only match at the start of the string.

Hope this helps,

James