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you mean php safe mode then ?

Yep, php safe mode.

Allen, yeah that's where I'm running into the problem. Will have to allow it to run under both methods, but when safe mode is on it's not going to be as scalable since we can't create new directories. We'll have to just stuff everything into one directory on that condition.

I concourr... Safe mode does suck... In fact, it sucks so badly that PHP6 doens't come with it anymore ;)...

Require php5

safemode exists in PHP5 though..

Though I am curious at what point we require PHP5 lol

Well considering we still have quite a few potential customers that are on hosts that are still running something earlier than PHP 4.3, it will be awhile before we make the leap to having PHP5 as a requirement.

To add to that, like I said, we can code around it where needed. If safe_mode is turned on, then it will just dump all of the gallery uploads into a default/thumbs, default/medium, default/large directories that will be created on the install/upgrade. When it's off it will create a subdirectory for that particular forum using the forum id.

The latter will offer the best performance, but if you're on a shared host then chances are your site isn't overly huge so dumping everything into one directory won't be too bad. If you have so many pictures uploaded where it becomes a problem, then most people would be looking at switching to a bit higher end host anyways where safe mode could be turned off.