making $var's into URL's

[NL_Cartman]

Hi, i've been searching for some time now, and cant seem to find a simple method, get the line below right;

<a href=\"$_POST[www]\" target=\"new\">" . $_POST["www"] . "</a>"

its adding the line to my webaddress?, like [mysite.nl...]

I just want the variable not a page on my site.

I must be very simple, yet i'me struggling with it :S

Thnx

[Nick_W]

I'm a little confused. What do you want it to look like?

Nick

[NL_Cartman]

hi Nick,

the $_post["www"] = "http://www.yoursite.nl"

when i try to link to it, like i do above;

he's adding the url of my site automaticly, and the link looks like this:

"http://www.mysite.nl/http://www.yoursite.nl"

instead of: "http://www.yoursite.nl"

[Nick_W]

Have you tried just printing the var to check it's ok? - I can't see anything wrong with the code so my guess is the var is actually what is being printed...?

Nick

[NL_Cartman]

as you see, the var is getting echo'd as a link, that works fine indeed, but somehow he keeps placing the url of my site in front of the other url

i also tried;

<a href=\"$_POST["www"]\" target=\"new\">" . $_POST["www"] . "</a>"

<a href=\"$_POST[www]\" target=\"new\">" . $_POST["www"] . "</a>"

<a href=\"" . $_POST["www"] . "\" target=\"new\">" . $_POST["www"] . "</a>"

?

[Nick_W]

What do you get with: print($_POST['www']);

Nick

[NL_Cartman]

whatever i put in it , the var is not the problem

I'me pretty sure i need another statement to let php read the url as a new url, so it wont ad my site url in front of the $_POST["www"]

[Nick_W]

So when you print the var without trying to make a url you get [mydomain.nl...] right?

Nick

[NL_Cartman]

Ooooow Damn Damn, what an ASS i ame! , better i say it myself!

i didn't actualy put a correct URL in the form-field that produces the $_POST["www"] , therefore it didn't work :¦

I'me sorry to have wasted your time, and bandwidth!

Thanx A Whole Lot Nick! :)

[Nick_W]

Then there is no reason why

print('<a href="'.$_POST['www'].'">site</a>');

shouldn't work...

Nick

[NL_Cartman]

i didn't expect the "http://" to be important, i guess i should have