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Ability to integrate with different forum scripts:
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vBulletin Only
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Use existing forum login:
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 Included
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vBulletin 3.0
or higher only
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Internal User Registration System:
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Included
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No
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User Uploads w/ auto thumbnails:
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Included
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Included
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Multimedia/Video Support:
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Included
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No
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Batch uploads w/auto thumbs:
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Included
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Included
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User comments/posts:
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Included
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Included
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Users can create albums:
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Included
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Included
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Password protected user albums:
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Included
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Included
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Image Watermarks:
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Included
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Included
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Upload photos in ZIP's:
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Included
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No
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eCards:
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Included
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Included
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Use Forum Styles:
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Included
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Photo Contest Categories:
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Included
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No
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Image Protection System (ability to store photos in protected area):
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Included
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No
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Unlimited Cats & Subcats:
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Included
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Included
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Choice of ImageMagick or GD2:
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Included
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Included
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Keyword Search:
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Included
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Included
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Photo ratings:
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Included
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Included
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Category view/upload limits using usergroups permissions
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Included
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Included
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Uses vBulletin Template System:
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No
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Included
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Internal Unzip functionality:
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Included
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No
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Individual cateogry header/headtags/footer:
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Included
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No
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Admin statistics page:
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Included
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No
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Admin/User configurable thumbnail layout:
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Included
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No
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Admin configurable placement of filmstrip location when viewing a photo:
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Included
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No
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Admin configurable format (forum versus gallery layout):
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Included
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No
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Optional integration with BotBuster to protect bandwidth:
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Included
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No
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Popup help windows
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Included
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No
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Customizable photo frames (per category) and thumbnail rotation:
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Included
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No
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Optional thumbnail upload for Video files:
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Included
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No
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Support for JPEGTRAN to remove XML data from jpegs:
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Included
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No
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Multi-language support:
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10 included
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English only
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Spider Friendly URLs:
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Included
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No
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Index can be seperated into multiple pages
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Included
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No
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Announcements/category Introductions:
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Included
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No
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Single photo can be assigned to multiple categories
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Included
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No
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Cell Phone Uploads:
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Supported module
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No
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RSS Feeds:
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Supported module
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No
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| PP | vBG | Feature |
| x | x | Users can upload photos to a category or to their own gallery |
| x | x | Users can create their own subcategories/subgalleries within their gallery |
| x | x | Users can upload more than one file at a time (can be disabled byadmin) |
| x | x | Post comments about photos |
| x | x | Users can create personal albums |
| x | x | Search by keyword |
| x | x | Rate photos on a scale from 1 to 5 |
| x | x | Edit or delete user's own comments |
| x | x | Edit the description of user's uploaded photos, or delete their photos |
| x | x | Move their photos from one category to another |
| x | x | Image manipulation: When using ImageMagick, users can rotate CCW, rotate CW, Flip and Flop an image after it has been uploaded (by editing a photo). |
| x | x | Users can choose to be notified of new posts to their photos or photos to which they want to subscribe (email notification). |
| x | x | Send a photo as an e-Card (greetings card / post card, etc) |
| x | x | Choose how many thumbnail images to display per page |
| x | x | Sort thumbnail display pages by alphabetical, most popular, most active, by date, and by number of views |
| x | x | Uses time offset and 'posts per page' user preferences from vBulletin user DB (when in use) |
| x | x | Private Personal Albums - Private Albums are assigned a unique URL which the person can share with friends and family for restricted access. |
| x | x | New Comments/Photos indicator - for users who are logged in, the arrow for comments and posts will glow when new items have been posted since last visit to the category. |
| x | x | View Recent Uploads - A link to show the posts in the past 1, 7 and 14 days. |
| x | x | View All Uploads - can be viewed and then sorted (for example to see the most popular uploads in all groups) |
| x | x | My Favorites - Users will have the ability to "tag" images for their own "My Favorites" feature. Viewing My Favorites shows the tagged images in a gallery format. |
| PP | vBG | Feature |
| x | x | Easy web-based setup
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| x | x | Templates for all user-interface pages (allowing custom HTML throughout)
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| x | x | Unlimited categories and sub categories
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| x | x | Multiple image uploads via FTP with automatic thumbnail generation. Upload hundreds or thousands of images via FTP then import them into PhotoPost all at once.
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| x | x | Approve/Reject uploads before they are viewable by users (can be disabled)
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| x | x | Bandwidth/diskspace friendly: choose to save user uploads (of any size) as thumbnails only, turning off large images.
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| x | x | Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users (disk space allowance, file upload size restrictions, uploads, comments) - this could be used to enable premium access such as more disk space for paying member (this is functional with any user database - internal or forum integration)
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| x | x | Set the size of thumbnail images
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| x | x | Move photos from one category to another
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| x | x | Set user disk space limits
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| x | x | Set max file size (in bytes and in pixel width/height) of uploads
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| x | x | Password protect categories
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| x | x | Custom defined fields (custom fields to collect and display different information from the photo uploader besides description, title, etc, such as camera type, car engine size, etc - totally up to the admin)
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| x | | Stylesheets with GUI/Admin panel editor
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| x | x | Sticky photos / photo sorting to allow admins to determine the order in which photos appear in a gallery
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| x | x | Moderators are allowed to approve images but not modify admin panel settings
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| x | x | Admin can email users
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| x | x | Sticky photos - select certain photos to always appear at the top
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| x | x | Exempt admins from diskspace/file size limits
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| x | x | Exempt admins from upload approval process
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| x | x | Option to email admin when there are new uploads
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| x | x | Turn Off Boards. Will be able to "turn off" the boards for periods of maintainence or backup
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| x | x | Manage Albums. Gives the administrator the ability to edit/delete user Personal Albums
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| x | x | Personal Albums can be turned OFF by admin
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| x | x | Configure colors/fonts
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| x | x | Create and rename categories and category descriptions
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| x | x | Tell-a-Friend feature to let your users spread the word about your galleries.
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| x | x | Change the display order of categories
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| x | x | Enable/disable user editing of photos and posts.
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| x | x | Allow/disallow unregistered users to upload photos and post comments
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| x | x | Set number of comments per page
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| x | x | Set number of thumbnail columns in the thumbnail display screens
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| x | | Specify unique header/headtags/footer files for each category/subcategory.
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| x | x | Allow only administrators to upload to a category/subcategory.
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| x | x | Purge Photos feature - allows admin to remove files that exceed a specified age.
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| x | x | Admin password can be changed using install.php installation script if it is ever lost or forgotten.
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| x | x | Allow unregistered users to send ecards.
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| x | x | Fix thumbnails/database. A "scan database" admin function which will fix images with no thumbnails (creating new thumbnails), remove database entries with no image and fix the username associated with an image (in case a BB has allowed a user to change their ID).
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| x | | Watermark tracking tracks which images have watermarks added to them
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| x | x | User Views - tracking the number of images a user views (displayed in User admin)
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| x | x | Scan DB will also add watermarks to all your images if selected
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| x | x | Bulk Move. The ability to move all of the images from one group to another.
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| x | | Mass Move/Delete.
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| x | x | Deleting a category deletes all photos and comments within that category and all of its subcategories, simultaneously.
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| x | x | Option to turn OFF rating of photos (turns off display, too)
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| PP | vBG | Feature |
| x | x | MySQL database driven
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| x | x | Can integrate with vbPortal
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| x | x | Supports database prefixes to allow the use of one MySQL database when table names would otherwise clash.
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| x | x | ZLIB compression support to speed page loading, reduce bandwidth
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| x | x | Option to require users be registered to view images
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| x | x | UBB/VB Code (linkify, bold, etc) for Descriptions and Comments
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| x | x | Dynamic titles for pages to improve search engine indexing
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| x | x | Slideshow display of images in condensed format
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| x | x | Configurable date formats and time offsets per user
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| x | x | GD2 support for image resizing, watermarks and on-the-fly watermarks (or use ImageMagick for all but on-the-fly)
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| x | x | ImageMagick support for image resizing and watermarks (or use GD2)
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| x | x | Video Uploads. Support for multimedia files. When PhotoPost detects the upload is a multimedia file (.mpg, .avi, .asf, .wmv, and .mov).
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| x | x | Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIF file formats when using ImageMagick, or JPG and PNG formats when using GD
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| x | x | Automatic thumbnail creation
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| x | x | Thumbnail display pages show details for each photo such as filesize, user name, date, number of times viewed, and number of comments.
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| x | x | Images stored on disk in a directory rather than in the database, which allows them to be cached by browsers, saving bandwidth.
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| x | x | Number of photos and comments limited only by your server's diskspace and MySQL's record limits
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| x | | IP caching - prevents multiple views and voting in a configurable timeframe
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