p tag added when using href with variable

Hello,

I’m trying to add an external link to a page but wordpress adds a <p> before and after the url so my link is part of the self site url.

I get an external url (ex: https://www.myurl.com) from a field (ex:field_3008) in the database:
$myurl = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $this->myplugin[‘current’][‘data’][field_3008]);

then when using:
<a href="<?php echo $myurl; ?>">mylink</a>

I’m expecting the link to be: ‘https://www.myurl.com&#8217; but I get https://www.mywordpress_site.com/myurl.com

I tried the following: <a href="//<?php echo $myurl; ?>">mylink</a>
but it doesn’t work.
I realized that wordpress adds <p> before and after https://www.myurl.com
Any idea of how to make it work?

Thank you!