Make a row in UITableView point to a URL - iphone

Question

I have a table which lists out items I would to make each of the row in the table to point to a URL which is assigned to each item.

Answer 1

In your tableview delegate function didSelectRowAtIndexPath you can use this code to open a url in the Safari application.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://stackoverflow.com"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
}

Answer 2

If you don't want to leave your app, you can open the url in a UIWebView.
UIWebView * wv = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,460)];
[self.view addSubview:wv]; // or push onto Navigation Stack
// if adding wv as subview, also need to add a back button to self.view to dismiss webview.
[wv loadRequest:
[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:
[NSURL URLWithString: myURLForSelectedRow]]];
[wv autorelease];

Answer 3

When a cell is selected, the -tableview:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: delegate method will be called. From there, assuming you have the url for each row, the following code will open the URL url in Safari.
NSURL *url = /* Assume this exists */;
if( [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:url] )
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: url];
}