Hyperlink to other web site uses wrong URL ...

[James Lamb]

Hello all - can anyone please give me a pointer to where I am going wrong with these links to other websites? I have a field in my db which uses magiccell to treat the cell contents as a hyperlink - this is based on the
Example 6 at http://www.aspdb.com/apps/mh-part1.asp. Each cell contains data such as www.new_site.com and the site is hosted on www.mydomain.com.

Trouble is, when I click on the hyperlink, the browser tries to link to the URL http://www.mydomain.com/www.new_site.com instead of http://www.new_site.com .

Any ideas where I am going wrong ? How can I force the linked URL to www.new_site.com ?

Many thanks for any ideas - James.

[Mark]

James,
Show us your source code for dbMagicCell and give an example of the complete URL that you are trying to link to.
Thanks.
Mark.


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James Lamb at 10/16/00 10:14:31 AM

Hello all - can anyone please give me a pointer to where I am going wrong with these links to other websites? I have a field in my db which uses magiccell to treat the cell contents as a hyperlink - this is based on the
Example 6 at http://www.aspdb.com/apps/mh-part1.asp. Each cell contains data such as www.new_site.com and the site is hosted on www.mydomain.com.

Trouble is, when I click on the hyperlink, the browser tries to link to the URL http://www.mydomain.com/www.new_site.com instead of http://www.new_site.com .

Any ideas where I am going wrong ? How can I force the linked URL to www.new_site.com ?

Many thanks for any ideas - James.

[James Lamb]

Thanks Mark - here is the line where I use magiccell:

MyDb.dbMagicCell = "3,,#3#,index,indexanchor;
15,,<A HREF=mailto:#(15)#>#15#<A>;
19,,<A HREF=#19# target=newwindow>#19#</A>;
Country,,<IMG SRC=../images/flags/#Country#.gif >&#34;

As you can see, I do a number of things with this line: field 3 is formatted a link between grid & form ; field 15 is an email link which fires up the default email package and this works fine; field 19 is the link to the webpage
and the filed &#39;country&#39; links to a flag image.

Please take a look and let me know what you think - many thanks, James.





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Mark at 10/16/00 10:19:18 AM

James,
Show us your source code for dbMagicCell and give an example of the complete URL that you are trying to link to.
Thanks.
Mark.

[James Lamb]

I&#39;ve solved it!I changed the entry in the database from www.new_site.com to http://www.new_site.com and it works fine now.

I&#39;ll just have to make sure that all the entered links are preceeded with the http:// when they are entered into the database.

So it seems that if you have http:// the component recognises a link to new domain but if there is no http:// the component assumes that it is a link to a file/directory on the host domain. Hope this helps some you too.

[James Lamb]

I&#39;ve solved it!I changed the entry in the database from www.new_site.com to http://www.new_site.com and it works fine now.

I&#39;ll just have to make sure that all the entered links are preceeded with the http:// when they are entered into the database.

So it seems that if you have http:// the component recognises a link to new domain but if there is no http:// the component assumes that it is a link to a file/directory on the host domain. Hope this helps some of you too.

[Daraius]

Hi James:

You do not need to modify your data base to include the http://. You can do it just as easily in the dbMagicCell as follows:
= 19,,<A HREF=http://#19# target=newwindow>#19#</A>;

This is an HTML behavior, not specific to ASPDB.

Daraius