script to generate an external link

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hello all, if anyone out there could help me i would really appreciate
it. i am very much a novice coder. I have a site we are building and
we have created a section in the admin area to allow the client to add
external links to their web site. the problem we keep running into is
the links that get generated have the home page url in front.

ie. lets say the web site address ishttp://abc.comand i create an
external link called xyz. the url i put in the link generator is
www.xyz.com
but what happens is the script spits out a link with this url:
http://abc.com/xyz.com.

below is the script:

//include external links
$query = "SELECT LINK_HREF, LINK_NAME
FROM LINK";

$lresult = mysql_query($query);

if (mysql_num_rows($lresult) == 0)
{
echo 'Verses being update.';
}
else
{
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($lresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
print "{$trOpen}" . "<a href=\"{$row['LINK_HREF']}\">" .
"{$row['LINK_NAME']}" . "</a>" . "{$trClose}";
}
}

If anyone could help i would be very grateful

God bless
jason

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>hello all, if anyone out there could help me i would really appreciate
>it. i am very much a novice coder. I have a site we are building and
>we have created a section in the admin area to allow the client to add
>external links to their web site. the problem we keep running into is
>the links that get generated have the home page url in front.
>>
>ie. lets say the web site address is http://abc.com and i create an
>external link called xyz. the url i put in the link generator is
>www.xyz.com
>but what happens is the script spits out a link with this url:
>http://abc.com/xyz.com.
>>
>below is the script:
>>
>//include external links
>$query = "SELECT LINK_HREF, LINK_NAME
>FROM LINK";
>>
>$lresult = mysql_query($query);
>>
>if (mysql_num_rows($lresult) == 0)
>{
>echo 'Verses being update.';
>}
>else
>{
>while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($lresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
>{
>print "{$trOpen}" . "<a href=\"{$row['LINK_HREF']}\">" .
>"{$row['LINK_NAME']}" . "</a>" . "{$trClose}";
>}
>}
>>
>If anyone could help i would be very grateful
>>
>God bless
>jason
>>

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you could have the users put the http:// inside their links, or manually
adding it in the code before you place the link value inside the href
attribute of the link tag.

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Well, i just added the http:// to the address and everything worked,
so i think what i will do is hardcode in the http:// so the client
only has to putwww.xxx.xxx