Create link when retreive from database

Question

Hi, I created database called "Homepage", and i created table
called "homenews" inside of "homepage" database.
I also created two column which is "News_Name" and
"News_URL".
I use dreamweaver and is works great when i retreive from
databse, but i want to change to have link, let say first colmn for
"news_name i put cnn, and second colmn for News_URL i put
www.cnn.com, my question is that how i can write php code to create
url link of "www.cnn.com" on the text called "cnn" when retreive
from database!
is this is correct code!
<?php echo '<a
href="'.$row_HomeNews[News_URL].'">'.$row_HomeNews[News_Name
].'</a>'; ?>
if so when why I'm getting errors!
AM

Answer 1

Alidad wrote:
> Hi, I created database called "Homepage", and i created
table called "homenews"
> inside of "homepage" database.
> I also created two column which is "News_Name" and
"News_URL".
>
> I use dreamweaver and is works great when i retreive
from databse, but i want
> to change to have link, let say first colmn for
"news_name i put cnn, and
> second colmn for News_URL i put www.cnn.com, my question
is that how i can
> write php code to create url link of "www.cnn.com" on
the text called "cnn"
> when retreive from database!
>
> is this is correct code!
>
> <?php echo '<a
href="'.$row_HomeNews[News_URL].'">'.$row_HomeNews[News_Name
> ].'</a>'; ?>
>
> if so when why I'm getting errors!
What errors are you getting?
For the looks of your code, if you have www.cnn.com in the
News_URL column, then the link you're generating will not go to
CNN. You need to include the
http:// as part of your link. Even though you
can copy and paste www.cnn.com into the browser and go to the
correct place, if it is used as a link in a page, then it has to
have the
http:// to go to be able to leave the current
site and go to the correct place.
Danilo Celic
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