https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-field-to-collect-a-web-address-as-clickable-url Gravity Support Forums Topic: Post field to collect a web address as clickable URL en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:23:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-field-to-collect-a-web-address-as-clickable-url#post-233909 Thu, 02 May 2013 14:58:10 +0000 draney 233909@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Cool and Thanks pierski!! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-field-to-collect-a-web-address-as-clickable-url#post-233790 Thu, 02 May 2013 12:39:20 +0000 David Peralty 233790@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Very clean pierski :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-field-to-collect-a-web-address-as-clickable-url#post-233763 Thu, 02 May 2013 12:11:40 +0000 Steve Napierski 233763@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I modified your script to check the custom field before posting the URL. Now it looks to see if the URL begins with "http://" before posting it and if not it adds it to the URL.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if((get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true))) { $websiteLink = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true); if(substr($websiteLink,0,7) == &#39;http://&#39;){ ?&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;&lt;?php echo get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;Click to view website &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;?php } else { ?&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://&lt;?php echo get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;Click to view website &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;?php } } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Hope this does the job. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-field-to-collect-a-web-address-as-clickable-url#post-233636 Thu, 02 May 2013 10:25:27 +0000 draney 233636@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm using a form to create a draft post and need to collect a web address that will be a clickable URL. I have tried using a custom field and then my template pulls the the URL in to create a link in the body of the post with this code:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php if((get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true))) { ?&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;&lt;?php echo get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;website_link&#39;, true); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;Click to view website &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>But I get too many invalid URLs because some people leave off the http://. So I want to try using an advanced website field to collect the URL entry, but I don't want it to show a text URL in the post. If they enter a URL, I want it to be appended to the bottom of the post as a clickable link similar the way I am doing it now, with the actual URL hidden and just showing a generic "Click Here" type of link.</p> <p>How can I do this? </p>