remove site url from links Wordpress

Question

I have to display link into my website like this :

$url = 'google.com';
<a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">Check it !</a>

What I don't understand now is that, the output href is not google.com but mydomain.com/google.com.

I don't know how to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

You need to append http:// before your url

Try below code:

 $url = 'http://www.google.com';
   <a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">Check it !</a>