How do I prevent a dynamic link change in PHP? - php

Question

I develop in ASP.NET MVC so please forgive my lack of the basics when it comes to PHP and WordPress. We have a WordPress site where the terms and conditions link in the footer is broke on one page but works on another.
On our home page (http://www.ourdomain.com) there is a link and when I hover on it I can see in Chrome that it dynamically changes from:
ourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/mm/pdf/Terms.pdf
to:
www.ourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/mm/pdf/Terms.pdf
When I view the source of the page the anchor tag is like this:
Terms
This works fine and renders the necessary pdf file. We have another url (http://www.ourdomain.com/contact) that also has a terms and conditions link that changes from:
ourdomain.com/contact/wp-content/themes/mm/pdf/Terms.pdf
to:
www.ourdomain.com/contact/wp-content/themes/mm/pdf/Terms.pdf
When I view the source of the page the anchor tag is as follows:
Terms
I have access to the entire site and the MySQL database for the site. What can I change to prevent the link from adding content to the URL? Are such links usually stored in the database?

Answer 1

Its because you didn't enter full path so the address is countine from your page address. as you see happend with the contact
/ will point to domain base
./ or empty will point to current url
Examples example.com/contact
<a href="/somefolder/file.pdf">
will point to http://example.com/somefolder/file.pdf
<a href="./somefolder/file.pdf">
will point to http://example.com/contact/somefolder/file.pdf
To avoid this you can enter the full url.
In case of wordpress if the link is in your theme you can use the function get_stylesheet_directory_uri() to get the full url for your theme.
Terms