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Originally Posted by kryptx
Arylia does have a few features that GD doesn't, but they are mostly little things -- not major features like batch gallery building or video support.
For instance, GD's template system doesn't support a single identifier for all thumbs, meaning that a template always has a fixed number of thumbnails. In Arylia you can create galleries using a single template that just get bigger if you have more images.
Another example is pruning -- nation-x may be planning to add this, but I read at one point that it doesn't currently allow users to prune a large set of images evenly, to get an even distribution of images from a wide selection.
There are also other factors, like the fact that Arylia can run under safe mode (though this isn't easy), runs fine with magic quotes enabled, does not require cron jobs to install, and is cheaper than GD.
There's no question, though, that if you need a large quantity of galleries made every day, or if you're dealing with movie galleries, GD is far superior to Arylia 2.
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I think the moral to the story is that they each have their own feature set (some common features).
kryptx is correct about Gallery Daemon not having a single thumb variable to output all thumbs to the gallery. You must specify a variable for each thumb in the template. I have never had any customers ask for this feature. I think that the template engine in Gallery Daemon is flexible, very simple to use and easy to understand.
Your right... I don't have image pruning. Morphius was one of my beta testers and he asked if I could add a feature for "crop profiles"... I am assuming this would be the same feature. It's on my list of features to add.
Gallery Daemon doesn't require cron jobs... they are optional.
It has NO SUPPORT for servers running magic_quotes_gpc as this feature will be removed from PHP in the next version... I don't see any reason to code support for it when the PHP Team even thinks it's a bad idea. It is fixed as easy as adding an .htaccess file with
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off to the gallery daemon script folder in most cases.
In addition to some of the features already stated, Gallery Daemon also supports custom RSS feeds of the galleries with thumbs in any size you have specified, delimited export for tgp scripts and mass import of fhg urls. It also supports Imagemagick, which Arylia 2 doesn't.
Yes. Arylia is cheaper then Gallery Daemon for single domain licenses.