Yii Appending base Url to href

Question

I have external links on my webpage:

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href=<?php echo $r['url'] ;?>>
                                                VISIT STORE
                                               </a>

When $r['url'] has http:// it shows the correct external url but when it has only www or just the website name with the domain it appends the web page's url.

    Case 1 : url = http://google.com    Works fine
    Case 2:  url = www.google.com      creates a link as: http://localhost/appname/controller/action/www.google.com

I am also facing the same problem. If you found the solution for this, please share with me. — Nuju, Jun 20 '17 at 09:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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Yii has no any relation to your problem. You don't know difference between absolute and relative URL's.

In your code, you don't use Yii anywhere. Yii has very powerfull URL manager with methods: createUrl, createAbsoluteUrl and other. You don't use this.

You need to understand the difference between absolute and relative URL's and your question gone away. There are more information in internet and in StackOverflow too: Absolute vs relative URLs

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Jan 27 '14 at 14:29

BaBL86

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The links you have given don't solve my problem. If you answering, please post code. – Varun Jain Jan 27 '14 at 19:28
Please mind how you speak. I don't have control over the url. It is coming in from an API. – Varun Jain Jan 27 '14 at 20:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 14:28

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try this:

<?php echo CHtml::link('Google', '//www.google.com', array('target'=>'_blank')) ?>

answered Jan 27 '14 at 14:28

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It creates url of the form http : // http // google.com – Varun Jain Jan 27 '14 at 19:29
I added spaces because SO was converting it into a link – Varun Jain Jan 27 '14 at 19:30
You can use it in this way: `echo CHtml::link('Google',( strpos( $r['url'], 'www')===0 )?'//'.$r['url']:$r['url'], array('target'=>'_blank'))` – Goodnickoff Jan 28 '14 at 06:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 14:41

Hope all your URLs are external. Then check your url for http:. If url contains http, then use directly, Otherwise add.

function is_valid_url($url)
{
   if(strpos($url, "http://")!==false)
      return $url; // correct
   else return "http://$url";// http not found.
}

In your a tag

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href=<?php echo is_valid_url($r['url']) ;?>>
   VISIT STORE  </a>

Yii Appending base Url to href

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