i have a database that stores the url example facebook.com i dispalyed the value in my table and i posted the same value in a href
<a href="<?php echo $url['url']; ?>" target="_blank">
<?php echo $fet_2['urlname']; ?></a>
so when i click the urll is opening in new tab like domain.COM/folder/folder/www.facebook.com and the fb page is not loaded. i want to load the fb page when i click the name. please help me
I would think that you are missing the http:// from the URL, and that's why you are directed to inside the domain looking for that page.
You can solve it like this.
<a href="http://<?php echo $url['url']; ?>" target="_blank">
As I mentioned in my comment, make sure the href has an "http://" in the URL. If not, the site will try to open in your current domain.
If some of the URLs in your database have the http://, then you need to do a check before prepending. Use something like this:
How to add http:// if it's not exists in the URL?
function addhttp($url) {
if (!preg_match("~^(?:f|ht)tps?://~i", $url)) {
$url = "http://" . $url;
}
return $url;
}
Good luck.
magnet:// ;) \w+:// would be more flexible, but this will probably cover all the cases OP has in mind anyway.