Post field to collect a web address as clickable URL

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draney
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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:
```
<?php  if((get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true))) { ?>
   <p><a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true); ?>">Click to view website &raquo;</a></p>
<?php } ?>
```
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.

How can I do this?
Posted 11 years ago on Thursday May 2, 2013 | Permalink

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.

<?php  if((get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true))) {
$websiteLink = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true);
if(substr($websiteLink,0,7) == 'http://'){ ?>
<p><a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true); ?>">Click to view website &raquo;</a></p>
<?php } else { ?>
<p><a href="http://<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'website_link', true); ?>">Click to view website &raquo;</a></p>
<?php } } ?>

Hope this does the job.

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday May 2, 2013 | Permalink

David Peralty

Very clean pierski :)

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday May 2, 2013 | Permalink
draney
Member

Cool and Thanks pierski!!

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday May 2, 2013 | Permalink

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