How do I display correct www-addresses?

jespr

I have a tiny prob with http-links stored in MySQL DB.

A user-DB containing various info on members has a field reserved for a homepage address.

The address gets stored correctly in MySQL, however, when I want to display the address it always has my homepage added to the address like:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/www.dennison/home.html/

or (on local testing machine):

http://localhost/users/www.dennison/home.html

I just want the link like this: www.dennison/home.html

I use a small part of code like:

//---

if ($homelink == "checked")
{ echo "  <a href='"$hyper."'>".$hyper."</a>";
}
//---
It's annoying - but I cannot find the error,

so, plz help!!!

tia

mrhappiness

echo $hyper; does output what?

jespr

$hyper = stripslashes($myrow['hyper']);

whatever address is in the DB...

echo $hyper; //would then return: www.dennison./home.html

mrhappiness

why not putting [url]http://[/url] in front of the link?

if (!preg_match('%^http://%i', $hyper))
  $hyper = 'http://'.$hyper;

jespr

Thx but I tried that.
It only makes this link:

http://http://localhost/users/www.dennison/home.html

that is whitout the

!preg_match('%^{[url]http://%i[/url]',} $hyper)

I'm not familiar with that and now I can just look it up in the manual but is this to check for the use of 'http' in my var
?

jespr

Thanx mrhappiness!

After checking out the manual I found that I'd give it a try and...

if (!preg_match('%^{[url]http://%i[/url]',} $hyper))
$hyper = 'http://'.$hyper;

works... of course

simple, when U know it and hard, when U R a donkey!

jordy

function enable_url($str) {
$str = eregi_replace("((f|ht)tp:\/\/[a-z0-9~#%@\&:=?\/.-]+)", "<A HREF=\"\1\" target=\"_blank\">\1</A>", $str); //http
$str = eregi_replace("([[:space:]a-z0-9()\"'[~#%@\&:=?.-])(www.[a-z0-9~#%@\&:=?\/.-]+)", "\1<A HREF=\"http://\2\" target=\"_blank\">\2</A>", $str); // www.
$str = eregi_replace("([.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3})","<A HREF=\"mailto:\1\">\1</A>", $str); // mail
return $str;
}