PHP/MySql CMS link question.

hi,

i've made a simple PHP news page by follwing the tutorial here: http://www.greycobra.com/tutorials.php?tutorial=view&id=53

It all works fine but for the purpose i need it for I would like to be able to type links within the message section of the 'submit.php' page. As it is at present when i type in the HTML code to link to an external site the resulting executed 'viewnews.php' does have the link but it adds my site root to the beginning of the links i have entered. For example if i type:
'<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>' into the message text area on the 'submit.php' page it results in a link to
'http://vbsdesign.co.uk/\http://www.google.co.uk\'.

If i haven't explained this very well it might be best to view the files....
http://www.vbsdesign.co.uk/submit.php
http://www.vbsdesign.co.uk/viewnews.php

If you haven't noticed i'm very new to PHP, and therefore this is probably something very simple.

hope someone can help.
thanks.

ps..sorry. the forum won't allow me to make 'live' links yet as this is my first post so a bit of cutting and pasting may be needed!

 

I see the problem
It all concern two PHP functions: addslashes and stripslashes
It is recommended that use always use addslashes when insert to a database.
In this case, the PHP config is set up do do this part for you. But you should know this in other server. Otherwise, this may lead to security hole.

With your case, you can use stripclashes to remove the slashes (\)
E.g.

<?php
$str = '<a href=\"http://php4u.blogspot.com\">http://php4u.blogspot.com</a>';
// Outputs: <a href="http://php4u.blogspot.com">http://php4u.blogspot.com</a>echo stripslashes($str);
?> 

PHP:

 

Have to see the php coding of submit.php and/or viewnews.php to be sure what is the cause of the problem.

 

Sorry, the demo code has some mistake:
It should be like this;

<?php
$str = '<a href=\"http://php4u.blogspot.com\">http://php4u.blogspot.com</a>';
// Outputs: <a href="http://php4u.blogspot.com">http://php4u.blogspot.com</a>
echo stripslashes($str);
?> 

PHP: