Make a clickable url from a url

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This is my current line of code.

<p> Linkedin: <?= $user_info['portfolio_website'] ?></p>

Now it will just output the url as text.
How can I make this text clickable?

What I have tried:

I tried to put a href for it but then it turned transparent

Posted 14-Jun-16 23:33pm

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Updated 14-Jun-16 23:55pm

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glen205 · Answer 1 · 2016-06-14T23:55:00

Solution 1

<p> is a paragraph tag. The href attribute isn't applicable to <p> tags.

For a hyperlink you need an Anchor tag.

<p> Linkedin: <a href="xxxxxx">yyyyyy</a></p>

Replace xxxxxx with your url (or php to place the url) and replace yyyyyy with the text you'd like to appear.

Maybe instead:

<p><a href="xxxxxx">Linkedin</a></p>

would also serve.

Posted 14-Jun-16 23:55pm

glen205

Updated 14-Jun-16 23:56pm

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Member 12584898 15-Jun-16 6:07am

The ['portfolio_website'] is extracted from the database and is different per user.
for example: one is http:linkedin.com/user2223
second is: http://linkedin.com/user/34434
This are the urls displayed on the view.
These urls should be clickable

glen205 15-Jun-16 10:32am

I understand that the links are different per user.

I put "xxxxx" and "yyyyy" in my example to illustrate where you would put *your* active content to render the url / visible text (the PHP code <?= $user_info['portfolio_website'] ?>)

In effect, my solution is just "what's the right HTML for a link" - I was just saying that the <p> tag isn't a clickable link, the <a> tag is. I assumed you already were okay with what PHP to use to put the actual text you wanted to appear.