URLs in extra fields

[thrion]

I'm trying to add a url as one of the extra fields, and then to display that field somewhere on the showproduct page.

The code I used in showproduct.php is this:

Content visible to verified customers only.

$extra6 is a url, and $extra5 is the name of the site.

The problem that I am finding is that the link that actually ges created is appended to my domain. So the resulting link sends people to something like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/http://www.theLinkThatIEnteredAs$extra6.com

I'm sure I am missing something simple, so thanks in advance for your help.

[Chuck S]

Do Not Use Href Tags Around The Variable

[thrion]

That's one of the things I tried, but I still end up with a problem. If I remove the href tags around the variable:

Content visible to verified customers only.

What ends up getting displayed is something like this:

www.mystore.com Buy the fantasmo widget at mystore

Where the url in variable $extra6 ends up a clickable link with the url itself as the link text followed by the rest of the text in red, but not clickable.

I have toyed around with saving the url with and with out the http:// and even encoded versus not encoded.

Thanks again for your help...Everything else has been a breeze so far to get working. I know I have seen this happen before but cannot for the life of me remember how to correct it.

[thrion]

Hey chuck...I just figured it out. If only I had waited 10 more minutes to post the reply.

I took out the convert_markups function for $extra6, and now it works like a champ. Must not have been searching for the right words here earlier...