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[jlee2301]

Hi

I have a form where the user enters a url for their personal page in a text box. When this is sent to the database, I want to then be able to show the entry as a hyperlink in the table so users can click on the word 'contact' but to do this, somehow the <a href="">contact</a> will need to be added. The url that the user initially entered would go between the "".

Hope this is clear - thanks

[KeithMcL]

When you are retrieving the info from the database and displaying it you simply tell PHP to add the hyperlink tag around the URL info. For instance:

PHP Code:

$query = "SELECT url FROM tablename";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {
    echo "<a href='" .$row['url']. "'>" .$row['url']. "</a>";
}