Hyper link question

PHP
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Here is what I have in my code:

$link = "www.google.com/this_is_a_really_long_URL";
$shortLink = substr($link, 0, 20);

print ("<a href='$link' target='_blank'>$shortLink</a>");

When I save the page, and then put my mouse over the link, it’s doing this:

http://test.myWebsite.com/tools/www.google.com/this_

How do I force it to NOT add test.myWebsite.com/tools/ to the front of the URL? I’ve never seen this before.

Thank you.

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put ‘http://’ on the front of $link

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3

Wow, I thought I already tried that, but apparently not. All is well now. Thanks feigall!

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or '//' if you use http and https.

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