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My site includes listings that have a URL field.

Some people have entered and will enter the website address without the “http://” and therefore when I display these URLs on the site, they do not appear as links.

I have a php function that can convert a URL without the http:// to one with it. However I am not sure how I can use this with EE.

function prependMissingProtocol($sURI)
{
    preg_match('#^https?://#i', $sURI) or ($sURI = 'http://'.$sURI); 
    return $sURI;
}

My EE code is as follows:

{exp:channel:entries channel="services" disable="member_data|trackbacks" limit="1"}

     {if website}                
    Website: {website}

     {/if}


{/exp:channel:entries}

I haven’t done any work using Expression Engine for a few months now so I am a bit rusty. Anyone tell me how I can process this “website” variable with the PHP function?

Thanks

Paul

No worries I have found a solution using the auto_linker and the valid_url plugins

Would be curious if there were any alternative solutions though

{if website}                
Website: {exp:auto_linker target="blank"}{exp:valid_url}{website}{/exp:valid_url}{/exp:auto_linker}

{/if}

Mediakitchen,

A plugin would be the way to go. Even with your own function I would have suggested making it into a plugin. Alternatively you could have used javascript maybe. Closing this one out for now. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions