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Steven

May 19 2007, 04:22 PM

I have been trying to fix this for a couple weeks now, but I can't get it to work.

What I want to happen is to check whether the commenter entered a URL. (After I run the stripslashes function the URL is "http:///"). If they did, display their name as a link. If not, don't display it as a link. Here is my latest code on my journal page:

CODE

<?php if (stripslashes($row['url']) == "http:///") { printf("%s", stripslashes($row['name'])); } else { printf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", stripslashes($row['url']), stripslashes($row['name'])); } ?>

Amelie

May 20 2007, 12:26 PM

Try

CODE

<?php
if (!empty($row['url']) && $row['url'] != 'http://') {
printf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $row['url'], stripslashes($row['name']);
}
else {
echo stripslashes($row['name']);
} ?>

You don't need to run stripslashes on the URL since it will not contain any quotes. Quotes are the only things that are escaped with backslashes, and as the URL won't contain any, you don't need to use it. I have also switched printf to echo for the name field (when no URL is entered) as I find it more readable, however both will work.

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