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Integrating zenphoto into WordPress
If you have a blog based on WordPress and you want to integrate zenphoto into that, you do that by creating a zenphoto theme that is based on your WordPress theme. I did that with my gallery and here's a description on how I did that.
In the zenphoto installation directory, there's a themes folder. Use one of these themes as a basis for your WordPress-like zenphoto theme by simply copying and renaming it and then activating it in zenphoto. A theme basically consists of its CSS, and the files index.php (the albumbs overview), album.php (an album with thumbnails), and image.php (for one single image). All these php files need to be touched in a similar way. I'll explain it for index.php.
The first line in index.php is
<?php if (!defined('WEBPATH')) die(); ?>
Keep that one - never remove it. After that line, add the following one to import all WordPress functions (and replace "/blog/" in the URL with the installation directory of WordPress in your web root):
<?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/blog/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
After this line, we tell the WordPress theme to include the CSS of the zenphoto theme:
<?php
// add the zen css to the wordpress header
function addcss() {
global $_zp_themeroot;
echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$_zp_themeroot.'/zen.css" type="text/css" />';
}
add_action('wp_head', 'addcss');
?>
Now, remove all stuff from DOCTYPE to the "main" DIV and replace it by the header code of your blog:
<?php get_header(); ?> ...
Simply copy&paste all necessary code from your existing WordPress theme up to the beginning of the "content" DIV. Don't include the "main-loop" part of the WordPress theme - but leave the "main" DIV of the zenphoto theme as it is.
After the "main" DIV is closed, close the WordPress "content" DIV and add the sidebar and the footer from your existing WordPress theme:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>
If you have WordPress and zenphoto use the same database on your machine, then your done. If not, you have to add two more lines to switch between the two databases you use. You do that by putting
<?php db_connect(); // reconnect to zenphoto db ?>
right before the beginning of the "main" DIV and
<?php $wpdb->select(DB_NAME); // reconnect wordpress db ?>
right after the end of the "main" DIV.
The final index.php of your new zenphoto theme will then look like:
<?php if (!defined('WEBPATH')) die(); ?>
<?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/blog/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
<?php
// add the zen css to the wordpress header
function addcss() {
global $_zp_themeroot;
echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$_zp_themeroot.'/zen.css" type="text/css" />';
}
add_action('wp_head', 'addcss');
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php db_connect(); // reconnect to zenphoto db ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<div id="main">
put everything from the original zenphoto
index.php "main" DIV here ...
</div>
</div>
<?php $wpdb->select(DB_NAME); // reconnect wordpress db ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Follow the same steps for album.php and image.php and you are done.

@preckie, Mas: Yeah, I know, but a
@preckie, Mas: Yeah, I know, but a plugin is kind of hard to do unless both projects work together on this issue. Until then, the walk-through given is one possible solution - and yes, you need to know a bit about CSS, PHP, and stuff if you have a non-standard theme...
@joshuasbones: ? @tom: well, in my
@joshuasbones: ?
@tom: well, in my case, it's simply a relative static link: <a href="/photos">...</a>...
Hmm. Is it right that you added the DB
Hmm. Is it right that you added the DB reconnection stuff into the zenphoto theme? The code looks pretty much mixed up. Maybe starting from the beginning might help... Sorry, can't do much more based on the info I got...
@hip: zenpress has some of the features
@hip: zenpress has some of the features you are missing... Oh, and I\'ve added that cookie warning - cheers for the hint!
@Jeremy: No idea why this happens... How does your page look? Is it ok? Is just the validator borked? Strange is: On my page (e.g. http://www.ruzee.com/photos/) the W3C validator says \"404 not found\" - no clue what\'s causing that... Anyone else having similar problems?
Dimiter, just check for the existence
Dimiter, just check for the existence of a ZenPhoto global variable, e.g.
global $_zp_gallery; if (isset($_zp_gallery)) { echo "zenphoto"; } else { echo "WordPress"; }Yeah, guess that's also possible. But
Yeah, guess that's also possible. But zenphoto includes it's own URLs into the HTML and does some modrewrite stuff. Guess that'll make things a bit complicated...