This is an awkward question but I am helping edit a site and there are some text fields in the MySQL table that I wanted to edit. One of the edits I wanted to do was add a hyperlink.
So I went ahead and put in <a href = " etc. etc." </a>. When I save it and view the website, the website injects the site's URL before my link breaking the link.
e.g. I am working www.example.com trying to insert a hyperlink to www.google.ca
It will output as www.example.com/www.google.ca instead of www.google.ca
I am pretty new to PHP/MySQL so I'm not sure if this is common or what is causing this. I tried looking at the file itself and the css to see if there was something causing this. I am not sure if this is even a normal thing or if there is a workaround it that I'm unaware of.
If anybody has ideas on where I should look (if they suspect it's the site that's injecting it), please let me know.
As I mentioned in the comments above already:
<a href="www.google.ca">Google</a>
is a relative url and will output as http://yoursite.tld/www.google.ca
<a href="http://www.google.ca">Google</a>
will output as a correct link.