Adding a base URL to links - please help

[Kevin Morgan]

Hi there,

I'm new to the world of PHP, so forgive me if this is a daft question.
I've written a script which pulls some headlines from a remote site and
displays them on my server. Trouble is, all of the links are relative
and I need some way of adding the "http://www.foobar.com/" to the start
of these links.

How do I go about doing it?

Regards,

Kevin

[Mike Willbanks]

Re: Adding a base URL to links - please help

Kevin,
[color=blue]
> I'm new to the world of PHP, so forgive me if this is a daft question.
> I've written a script which pulls some headlines from a remote site and
> displays them on my server. Trouble is, all of the links are relative
> and I need some way of adding the "http://www.foobar.com/" to the start
> of these links.
>
> How do I go about doing it?[/color]

Look into regular expressions. Search for the <a href=""> tag and check
the contents inside. Then do a replace on the link it self.

I would write it out for you but that doesn't help you to learn it yourself.

A good starting point for regular expressions is: http://www.regexplib.com


Mike

[Chung Leong]

Re: Adding a base URL to links - please help

Just add a <base url="http://..."> tag in the head section.