[nit3watch]

Build a plugin to allow groups to display and link back to their website, problem is I can only get it to direct to http://localhost/wordpress/groups/example-group/www.example-group.com and not to http://www.example-group.com .

I’ve tried numerous approaches but cant come right? Should be simple but think I’m overlooking something silly..

show web address for an individual group:

function gwebsite_make_website_for_group() {
global $bp, $wpdb, $gwebsite_args;

$link = gwebsite_get_group_website();
$group_website = ' '.gwebsite_get_group_website().' ' ;

return $group_website;
}

Edit: the code displays funky on the forum..
Here’s the entire plugin: http://pastebin.com/57GtMkbd

[nit3watch]

To be a bit more clear, gwebsite_get_group_website() returns the ‘web site’ correctly as below:

Though using $link = gwebsite_get_group_website();
when
$group_website = ' '.gwebsite_get_group_website().' ' ;
return $group_website;

returns the url as http://localhost/wordpress/groups/example-group/www.example-group.com and not to http://www.example-group.com .

Any idea’s were Im going wrong?

[nit3watch]

After a day of searching came across esc_url which worked like a charm.

[Hugo Ashmore]

glad I spotted you found that, was thinking the only way of working things out was going to be running the function locally