i have a form in which a user can enter their URL, to be attached to their name, and posted on a bulletin, not unlike this one. In other words, the html to printed would look like this: <a href="http://www.somedomain.com">User Name </a>>

And here's what I want it to do:

If they enter their URL as http://www.somedomain.com it simply writes it to the file.

If they enter www.somedomain.com, without the http://, it will add http:// to their URL when printing to the file.

Else, if they enter nothing, it will just print their name.

Thanks in advance.

Gino
gino@smallpondstudios.com

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