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Hi all,

Basically I just want to create links to external websites.

I have a member company list in the form of a table displaying the companies in ascending order. Some of the companies have direct links to their individual websites.

I have created a channel (member_companies) which contains a text input custom field (company_url).

Below is my attempted code for the table containing the URL and company name.

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
{exp:channel:entries channel="member_companies" dynamic="off" sort="asc"}
<tr>
<td><span><a href="http://{company_url}">{title}</a></span></td>
</tr>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</tbody>
</table>

The displaying result on the page is the URL followed by the Title. e.g.

<a href="http://www.membersite.com.au&gta">http://www.membersite.com.au">a</a> Member Company Ltd

And the path is all messed up. e.g.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com.au/corporate/companies/&lta">http://www.mysite.com.au/corporate/companies/<a</a>

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks,
Rob

Under Admin > Channel Adminstration > Channel > member_companies > Edit Preference > Channel Posting Preferences.  Do you have “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” set to yes?  I so set it to no for that channel.

Ok… so it was set to yes so I set it to no and now the title is displaying correctly but the resulting link is still wrong. e.g.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com.au/corporate/companies/http://www.membersite.com.au">http://www.mysite.com.au/corporate/companies/http://www.membersite.com.au</a>

So…

Any ideas where to now?

Thanks again,
Rob

Your field for the url is set to format None right? Not XHTML?

Your field for the url is set to format None right? Not XHTML?

Yes. Default Text Formatting for This Field option is set to None.

Sine the is not in your template, it’s coming from somewhere else - and even though your format is currently none, it may have been saved previously with XHTML format - and if all entries with that field type were not updated at the time the change was made, it would retain that info.  I’d try emptying the field and saving, then edit it again and put the address back in - see if that clears it up.

hi all,
i having the same prolem and i am using ee 1.6.9
any idea how to accpomlish this?

thanks in advanced

hi all,
i having the same prolem and i am using ee 1.6.9
any idea how to accpomlish this?

thanks in advanced