VERY Weird Problem
 

I created a user profile field that asks members for a URL to a home page....

To show this field in the post bit I use the following code

<if condition="$post['field9']"><div><b>Trade Page:</b> <a href="$post[field9]" target="_blank">Visit My Page</a></div></if>

Field9 represents what they input. The wierd problem is this..

if a member puts http://sitename.com all works great - the 'Visit My Page' is linked to the URL they input HOWEVER if they leave off the http:// and put say www.sitename.com vbulletin for some reason adds our domain http://oursite.com/forums/ then puts the field9

end result for the link is http://oursite.com/forums/www.sitename.com

Why in the world would vbulletin add our forum url to this field? Any ideas

Its not vBulletin its the anchor (<a>) link/browser. If it doesn't see the http:// it assumes that the link is local (i.e. a place on your server) instead of remote (i.e. another site).

If I remember correctly you can add a "Regular Expression" check so if you find the appropriate REGEX code, to check for the "http://" (should be available from a few google searches), you can insert it in the box in the AdminCP Custom Field Manager.

As said, it's a HTML problem, not something to do with the implementation of this field. You can either insert it into the box and hope they don't delete the http://, use a regular expression or validation code to check for it, or if all is lost, ask them to only input the www. or non www. address without http:// and add this to your code:

<if condition="$post['field9']"><div><b>Trade Page:</b> <a href="http://$post[field9]" target="_blank">Visit My Page</a></div></if>

Well thank you both VERY much - I had NO idea what was going on.