What is the code for making a relative URL clickable?

[timhall]

In the tell-a-friend-script at http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/tell-a-friend-script.htm how do I replace the absolute URL http://yoursite.com with the relative URL index.htm that is a clickable hypertext link???

When I use <a href=\"index.htm\"></a> the script simply prints a non-clickable index.htm .

[thorpe]

it shouldnt be printing anything. try

<a href=\"index.htm\">index.html</a>

[timhall]

When I use <a href=\"index.htm\">index.htm</a> the script simply prints <a href="index.htm">index.htm</a>

How on earth do I get the script to extract index.htm and print a clickable link? Elsewhere in the script a relative URL seems to be recognised (i.e. thankyou.htm).

[timhall]

If you go to daystoremember.org you will see what I am trying to do with the tell-a-friend script.

[Weedpacket]

Well, how are you trying to do it now? It sounds from here like it's going through htmlspecialchars(), turning the < and > into &lt; and &gt;. But that's just what it sounds like; can't tell for sure from what's been given.

[timhall]

The script is printed below (where you see http://yoursite.com I want to introduce a relative URL - index.htm):

<?PHP

// Taming The Beast Tell-A-Friend script V 1.1
// Taming the Beast.net - http://www.tamingthebeast.net
// Free Web Marketing and Ecommerce Resources
// By using this code you agree to indemnify
// Taming the Beast from from any liability that might arise // from it's use.

This section removes any nasty tags that the

user may have entered in the form fields

strip_tags($friendmail1);
strip_tags($friendmail2);
strip_tags($friendmail3);
strip_tags($email);
strip_tags($name);

This section sends you a notification email when

the form is used

// Your email address (for copies to be sent to you)
$emailto = "[e-mail]";

// Your email subject text
$esubject = "a page has been sent";

// The email text for copies sent to you
$emailtext = "
".$name." has used the tell-a-friend form. Their email address is ".$email."

The people they have recommended are:

".$friendmail1."
".$friendmail2."
".$friendmail3."

";

Send the email to you

@mail("$emailto", $esubject, $emailtext, "From: $email");

This section sends to the recipients

// Target page after successful submission
$thankyoupage = "thankyou.htm";

// Change the subject text below to suit
$tsubject = "A great site";

// Change the text below for the email
$ttext = "
Hi,

A friend or colleague of yours, ".$name.", whose email address is ".$email." thought you may like to visit our site. ".$name." has used our Tell-a-Friend form to send you this email.

http://www.yoursite.com

";

This sends the email to the addresses entered

@mail("$friendmail1 $friendmail2 $friendmail3", $tsubject, $ttext, "FROM: $email");

After submission, the target URL

header("Location: $thankyoupage");
exit;
?>

[thorpe]

well if your planning on sending this in an email, a relative link will be no good to you anyway. the and result would be a link to index.html on the clients computer.

[thorpe]

and now i see your problem. in order to send an email containing links you need to send it as html (beware that not all clients support html), search the board and im sure you'll find a solution.