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Simple Tip: Fields containing links as content, having content starting with http:// or www. with same effect

July 13, 2011 12:17am

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#1 / Jul 13, 2011 12:17am
ryanvosburg
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Quick little tip that will be useful for editorial or entries that contain a source link.

A lot of the time these source links are pasted into the source link field without regard of starting with http:// vs or www. Here is a short snippet of php code that will detect what the entry starts with and auto formats the correct way. Just make sure in channel preferences you have automatically convert email addresses and links to OFF. Also compatible with matrix.
```
<a href="http://&lt?php">Source</a>
```
Hope it’s useful to someone!

EDIT: wont let me post the entire code… php truncates a lot of it…