make internal link to be external

Question

So,

web site have a user profile
user can edit own profile
profile data have "site" data field
user can enter some site url and after that this url will shown in profile like a link

if user enter site with protocol (https://facebook.com ) there is no problem and it goes to https://facebook.com

but if user enter something like this facebook.com it will be internal link and goes to https://my.site.com/facebook.com

how can i avoid this situation?

May be ths will help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2762061/how-to-add-http-if-its-not-exists-in-the-url — senK, Sep 09 '14 at 07:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '14 at 07:29

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Check if there is :// in the entered data. If not then add http://

answered Sep 09 '14 at 07:29

Zeusarm

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this is my simple solution, thanks for pointing me to right direction ) – Vladimir Gordienko Sep 09 '14 at 07:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '14 at 07:30

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Unless you need to do some advanced checks, you can just check it when they add their url / site - if the "site" value does not start with http:// or https://, just add it in front before you save it.

answered Sep 09 '14 at 07:30

Daniel Andre

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make internal link to be external

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