help with link from mysql

Hello All, I have a situation where I am storing data to a blob field. Everything works in respect to in and out of the DB, however when we type in a link like so HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.com/subfolder/folder2/"http://www.abc.com/subfolder/folder2/ the link stops at the domain, so the subfolder/folder2 is merely text at the end of the url, and not part of the link. When I write the data to the table I do this: $body = addslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['body']); When I read the data from the table I am doing this: 'body' => stripslashes(nl2br(makeLinks($row['body']))), Can someone let me know what I’m doing wrong, or how to work around this? Thanks! Joey No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.24/1115 - Release Date: 11/7/2007 9:21 AM