Change the way links are displayed in menus in front-end

app/controllers/pages_controller.rb

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class PagesController < ApplicationController
            when 'Page'    
              render_page
            when 'Link'
-             redirect_to "http://#{@item[:url]}"
+             redirect_to @item[:url]
          end
        else
          render :file => "#{Rails.root}/public/404.html", :status => :not_found

app/models/link.rb

@@ -2,10 +2,20 @@ class Link < Item
   
   field :url
   
-  validates_presence_of :url
+  validates :url, :presence => true, :format => /^(http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?$/ix
+
+	before_validation :add_http
 
   def link
     ApplicationController.helpers.link_to(self.name, self.url)
   end
 
+  protected
+
+	def add_http
+	  unless self.url[/^http?s:\/\//]
+	    self.url = 'http://' + self.url
+	  end
+	end
+    
 end

lib/parsers/parser_common.rb

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ module ParserCommon
     res << "_#{i}" if i
     res << " active" if (current_page.id.eql?(page.id) || current_page.descendant_of?(page))
     res << "'>"
-    res << "<a href='/#{edit ? admin_page_path(page.id) : page.path}'><span>#{page.i18n_variable[I18n.locale]}</span></a>"
+    root = "/"
+    res << "<a href='#{edit ? root + admin_page_path(page.id) : (page._type.eql?('Page') ? root + page.path : page.url)}'><span>#{page.i18n_variable[I18n.locale]}</span></a>"
     if page.visible_children.size > 0 && current <= menu.levels
       res << "<span class='dot'></span>"
       res << menu_level(page, current_page, current + 1, menu, edit)
@@ -119,7 +120,8 @@ module ParserCommon
         res << "<ul class='list'>"
         menu_page.visible_children.each do |child|
           res << "<li class='#{page.id.eql?(child.id) ? 'active' : nil}'>"
-          res << "<a href='/#{edit ? admin_page_path(child.id) : child.path}'>#{child.i18n_variable[I18n.locale]}</a>"
+          root = "/"
+          res << "<a href='#{edit ? root + admin_page_path(child.id) : (child._type.eql?('Page') ? root + child.path : child.url)}'>#{child.i18n_variable[I18n.locale]}</a>"
           res << "</li>"
         end
         res << "</ul>"