anchor tag weird behaviour in codeigniter

Question

i have controller by name"job_classified" the problem is when i open

<a href="google.com"> click me </a>

what actually is the problem? i tried other code igniter URI functions but it didn't work for me.can someone guide me how to do it correctly

you need to provide full url like (`http://google.com`) because on different browsers link without `http or https` taking project base url and append it automatically — Alive to die - Anant, Apr 19 '17 at 05:39
your link is : http://localhost/my_project/job_classified/google.com so it is open but if you want open google.com then update your url — Shafiqul Islam, Apr 19 '17 at 05:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Why your code doesn't work is described here:- https://stackoverflow.com/a/2005097/4248328

So do like below:-

<a href="https://www.google.com">click me</a>

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

Community

answered Apr 19 '17 at 05:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 05:40

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try this

<a href="https://www.google.com">click me</a>

answered Apr 19 '17 at 05:40

sandip kakade

Pupil · Answer 3 · 2017-04-19T06:06:54.530

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Please change url to:

<a href="http://www.google.com"> click me </a>

Reason: HTML parses urls as of relative ones if no http or https is given.

HTML server in your case considers google.com as a relative file is the same directory.

edited Apr 19 '17 at 06:06

answered Apr 19 '17 at 05:51

Pupil

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 06:10

In Codeigniter you can do it a couple of ways

Using the base_url from the url helper

Note: the base url in config.php must be set

https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html#base_url

<a href="<?php echo base_url('job_classified');?>">Some Name</a>

<a href="<?php echo base_url('controller/function');?>">Some Name</a>

Also you can use the anchor();

https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html#anchor

<?php echo anchor('job_classified', 'Job Classified');?>

<?php echo anchor('controller/function', 'Job Classified');?>

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 08:24

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Always prepend URLs with double slash. That way you don't need to think whether location should be http or https.

<a href="//google.com">This way browser will automatically</a>

<a href="//www.google.com">determine which scheme to use</a>

answered Apr 19 '17 at 08:24

Tpojka

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