anchor external url with urlencode

Hi everybody,
i'm trying in a view to make a link to an external url like this :

Code:

$c_url_redir = 'http://www.example.com/content.php?id=test&article=3';
if (isset($c_url_redir)){
   echo anchor(urlencode($c_url_redir), "go", 'class="pure-button pure-button-primary" target="_blank"');
}

CI add base_url to my external url...Why and how to fix that?

Hi everybody,
i'm trying in a view to make a link to an external url like this :

Code:

$c_url_redir = 'http://www.example.com/content.php?id=test&article=3';
if (isset($c_url_redir)){
   echo anchor(urlencode($c_url_redir), "go", 'class="pure-button pure-button-primary" target="_blank"');
}

CI add base_url to my external url...Why and how to fix that?

correct way to do this

Code:

$c_url_redir = 'http://www.example.com/content.php?id=test&article=3';
if (isset($c_url_redir)){
   echo anchor($c_url_redir, "go", 'class="pure-button pure-button-primary" target="_blank"');
}

ci's anchor function is not able to detect external url when you encode it...

CI's helper functions, like anchor(), are helpers for YOUR CI app. If you want to link to something external outside of your app, don't use CI's helpers and create a traditional <a> tag.