Link redirect problem...

[SoireeExtreme]

Hi, I'm trying to get a page to redirect a user to a link that is stored in the database when they click on it...

But the problem is that it doesn't exactly redirect to the link stored in the database. It tries to redirect to

mysite.com/whatever the stored link....  when it should just go to www.anothersite.com...

 

Could anyone help me out please?

 

Here is the code... Thanks in advance...

 

<?php
include "connect.php";
if(isset($_GET['linkid']))
{
  $linkid=$_GET['linkid'];
  $geturl="SELECT * from sl_links where linkid='$linkid'";
  $geturl2=mysql_query($geturl) or die("Could not get url");
  $geturl3=mysql_fetch_array($geturl2);

  print "<META HTTP-EQUIV = 'Refresh' Content = '1; URL =$geturl3[link]'> ";
}
?>

[SoireeExtreme]

Are people not understanding what I'm saying here? Or are people just refusing to help me out?

[Karl33to]

if you haven't got the 'http://' part of the URL stored in the database it will do what you are describing

 

if all the links are witout the 'http' bit the simplest way is to prepend it to the url in your meta refresh,

but if you have a mixed URL formats in the database you will need some code to add it where needed ...

 

if (substr($geturl3[link],0,7) != 'http://' ){
$url = 'http://' . $url;
}