Question

I have a custom field (called ‘website’) where a user enters the website to their URL. My php code is as follows

<div class="profileInfo">
   <h4  class="website">Website:</h4>
      <?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true)) { ?>
        <p><a href="http://<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true) ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true) ?></a></p>
      <?php } else { ?>
    <p class="na">no email provided</p>
    <?php } ?>
</div>

In the above example I prefix the URL with http://

So my problem is, when a user enters a url like http://www.example.com to the custom field it does not link to the site correctly. The URL looks like this on the frontend http//www.example.com

Strangely the colon : is stripped away or taken out so the URL does not work!I assume this is something to do with having two http://

Now, I have tried removing the http:// from the PHP code liek this

<p><a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true) ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true) ?></a></p>

So let’s say the user now enters http://www.example.com to the custom field and publishes the entry. The Url now goes to

http://mysite.com/www.example.com

It tries to build the URL into my current site page. No idea why it does not treat it as a URL.

Looking for some help how to correctly write this code in PHP.

Thanks

Answer 1

<?php 
if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true)) 
{
    $link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website', true);
    $link = str_replace(array('http://','https://'), array('',''), $link);
    ?><p><a href="http://<?=$link?>"><?=$link?></a></p><?php 
}  
else
{ 
    ?><p class="na">no email provided</p><? 
} 
?>    

This will replace all http:// in the url.