Advanced URL Field

Advanced URL Field is a Craft CMS plugin that adds a field type for entering a URL. It uses the standard plain text field, but provides validation to ensure that the value is a properly-formatted URL. The field can also be configured to only accept certain URL types such as absolute, relative, mailto, or tel.

This plugin can help prevent incorrect URLs such as http://example.com/www.google.com/, which happen when a user intends to enter an absolute URL but omits the protocol so it is interpreted as a relative URL.

Requirements

• Craft CMS 2.x

Installation

1. Download the latest version of Advanced URL Field.
2. Move the advancedurlfield directory into the craft/plugins/ directory.
3. In the Craft control panel, go to Settings > Plugins.
4. Find Advanced URL Field in the list of plugins and click the Install button.

Usage

Creating an Advanced URL Field

1. Create a new field.
2. Select Advanced URL as the field type.
3. Select which URL types to allow.*
4. Attach the new field to a section.

*URL Types

• Relative URLS must match the format of a URL path, relative to the document root, for example /about or /categories/new#first.
• Absolute URLS must match a full absolute url, prefixed with protocol and containing a domain name, for example https://www.example.com/ or https://example.com/about.
• Mailto Protocol must be an email address prefixed by mailto:.
• Tel Protocol must be a phone number prefixed by tel:.

Templating with an Advanced URL Field

In a Twig template, you can retrieve the data just as you would from a plain text field. See the example below, where myURL is an Advanced URL field that determines the link destination.

<a href="{{ entry.myURL }}">My Link</a>

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