hyperlinks and pictures aren't working

[Guest]

when you post a picture or hyperlink it just links you to this page
[url]http://dallaslair.org/p/forum/hyperlink[/url]

[Guest]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I'll look into it.

Here's a test hyperlink:
just typed hyperlink: [url]http://www.google.com/[/url]
used link feature to link to [link=http://www.google.com/]Google[/link]

Here's an image: [img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]

[Guest]

image didn't work, I may have just been entering links improperly

[Guest]

Okay, image has been fixed. (It was turned off in the settings -- oops).

As for the URLs, it's not your fault, it is somewhat confusing.
The code (with brackets instead of parentheses)
(url=X)Y(/url)
creates a link with X as the url, and Y as the anchor text, like so
[url=X]Y[/url]

By default when clicking the button, it sets X to be "hyperlink url" which if left as it is, will create the behavior you described.

So, I would say it's working as designed, but it's still an issue because it's not clear enough how to use it. I can perhaps hack it so that if X is exactly equal to "hyperlink url" then it replaces it with Y..

If you type in a bare url without any codes or anything, it will translate it into [link] and make it clickable.

[Guest]

why can't we just use the standard [img][/img] tags like every other forum in the solar system?