Title: Url Field
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Url Field

 *  Resolved [leoland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoland/)
 * (@leoland)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-field-1/)
 * Update, works for now, looking for better solution.
 * I am having users pass a url trough a text field, then it is outputted this way:
   `
   echo'<a href="http://' . $vendor['vendor_link'] . '">';` This works unless they
   include http:// in the field. How would i filter it out ? or is there a cleaner
   solution?
 * If i remove the http from my echo, then it passes the link as a subpage of the
   page the code is in.
 * So this works for now, but i am unsure if it is the best solution.
 *     ```
       $strip_these = array("http://", "https://");
       echo'<a href="http://' . str_replace($strip_these, "", $vendor['vendor_link']) . '">';
       ```
   

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 *  Plugin Author [Matt Gibbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mgibbs189/)
 * (@mgibbs189)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-field-1/#post-5782021)
 * 2.4 was just released, which includes a Hyperlink field type.
 *  Thread Starter [leoland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoland/)
 * (@leoland)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-field-1/#post-5782045)
 * Ah, I am using the link to enclose a bunch of other content so this works for
   now but i am definitely playing with the new field. that would explain why the
   the url addon (i thought I had imagined it) disappeared.

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 * Last reply from: [leoland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoland/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-field-1/#post-5782045)
 * Status: resolved