title: how to link to other website with codeigniter
body: <p>I'm new to codeIgniter. Can you tell me, how to link to other website url in codeIgniter?</p>
  
  <p>I tired to do like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;a href="www.google.com"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But instead it gives me this</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;a href="localhost/site-name/www.googlel.com"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It always refers to the base <code>url</code>, even though I don't <code>echo base_url();</code> on the <code>href</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>