How to get a url from a database - php

Question

So I have three pages one that is the index page. One that writes the data from a form inside the index page to the database. And one that gets data from the database and echos out a html table with the data inside.
Currently if you write a link in the form. It will just come out as text. I would like the whole link to be like [link].
so say if I wrote this onto the form:
Look at this: www.google.com or Look at this: https://www.google.com
it would come out like this in html
Look at this: www.google.com
How could I go about doing this?
Okay so the html is:
<form class="wide" action="Write-to.php" method="post">
<input class="wide" autocomplete="off" name="txt" type="text" id="usermsg" style="font-size:2.4vw;" value="" />
</form>
in which the user would write:
"Look at this: www.google.com or Look at this: https://www.google.com"
This would then get sent to the database through Write-to.php.
$sql="INSERT INTO social (comunicate)
VALUES
('$_POST[txt]')";
}
this then gets written back into the database:
$result = mysqli_query($con,"(select * from social order by id desc limit {$limit_amt}) order by id asc");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr div id='".$i."' class='border_bottom'>";
echo "<th scope='col'>";
echo "<span class='text'>".htmlspecialchars($row['comunicate'])."</span><br />";
echo "</th>";
echo "</tr>";
}

Answer 1

Just try:
echo(''.$your_url_variable.'');
Update:
The OP really wanted to detect url's in a string. One possible solution could be filter it using a regular expression. This code could help:
<?php
// The Regular Expression filter
$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
// The Text you want to filter for urls
$text = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com";
// Check if there is a url in the text
if(preg_match($reg_exUrl, $text, $url)) {
// make the urls hyper links
echo preg_replace($reg_exUrl, "{$url[0]} ", $text);
} else {
// if no urls in the text just return the text
echo $text;
}
?>
Source: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/find-urls-in-text-make-links/

Answer 2

There are quite a few things you need to worry about when displaying user supplied (tainted) data.
You must ensure that all the data is sanitised -- never ever just echo the content, look into htmspecialchars and FILTER_VALIDATE_URL for example:
function validateUrl($url) {
return filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
}
What you are attempting to do is convert a string into a link, for example you can write a function like this:
function makeClickable($link) {
$link = htmlspecialchars($link);
return sprintf('%s', $link, $link);
}
You can use string concatenation as well, but I wouldn't do that in my view code. Just personal preference.
Take a look at the urlencode function, it will certainly come in handy.
I would also recommend you read about cross site scripting
Please note that I am not making any implementation recommendations, my aim is just to show you some contrived code samples that demonstrate making a string "clickable".
Update:
If you would like to make links clickable within text, refer to the following questions:
Best way to make links clickable in block of text
Replace URLs in text with HTML links

Answer 3

save the hyperlink in db and retrieve as a string by sql query
like:
select link from table_name where index = i
and save link as: whaatever here
and print it

Answer 4

Use this
echo '' . $res['url'] . '';