Random Photo Plug-In

thatlittleguy

Any chance anybody could whip up a random photo style plug-in (and by plug-in I mean line of php code). Better yet would be the option to choose "random photo" or "random photo from specific album".

And it might not make sense to simply pull a random photo. Instead it might be more useful to display the thumbnail for a random photo and then link directly to that photo within it's own album.

Thank you very much.

luv

Hello,

I'm looking for ways on how to display random image per album. Is there a way to achieve this? There's no option for this in the program. There are about 200 photos in one album and viewers dont really go through all images on the albums so it's the same pictures are getting viewed. At least randow view based on file names.

Thank you.

acrylian

There is:
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation-official/zenphoto/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetRandomImages
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation-official/zenphoto/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetRandomImagesAlbum

fatman

I have made a php file for display random images for external site(I show some random image on wordpress blog sidebar), if anybody interested, I could post the code here.

acrylian

Of course, right on, we will add it then to your wordpress extensions page then.

fatman

Added at ticket 555
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/555

acrylian

Thanks.

luv

really nice! thanks.

acrylian

It has been added to our extensions page http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#random-image-external-site

luv

The extension made by fatman is different from [url]http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation-official/zenphoto/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetRandomImages[/url] right? How to set getRandomImages? Is this the line where I should set?

[code]$imageWhere = " AND " . prefix('images') . ".`show`=1"[/code]

Thanks.

luv

fatman,

Thank you for this piece of code. I have few questions because I cant seem to make it work.

1.) I placed random.php under zp-core and tested on the browser using http://mylocalgallery.com/zenphoto/zp-core/random.php?
num=9&height=50&width=50. I also tried with "class=" but it's not working.

There are boxes of thumbnails but the pictures are not showing. It displayed the filename of the image. I got this "Zenphoto Error: the requested object was not found." error when I clicked on the thumbnail.

2. If I set the parameters or default value for num, height, width, class on random.php, will "http://mylocalgallery.com/zenphoto/zp-core/random.php" work?

acrylian

luv, fatman's extension is meant to be used on a external site/pages that are not administrated by zenphoto (like a wordpress blog for example) while the function randomimages() is for zenphoto pages only.

luv

Hi acrylian,

So how to set getRandomImages? I only have one album with 200 images.

Thank you.

acrylian

Please follow the links to our documentation I posted above. And maybe read this before: http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/04/how-to-read-the-zenphoto-functions-guide/

vidisad

I would like to have fatman's random image display on external site but php is not my strength. Here is the code for a gif image (images/slikom.gif) which serves as the link to my zenphoto gallery. When you click the gif it opens page with gallery. I would like to have instead of that gif image random image by fatman that does the same job, takes you to the gallery.

This is code i have now to do the above described job:
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Where should I put fatman's code for the external php site?
`@readfile('http://yourgallery.com/zen/zp-core/random.php?

num=15&height=120&width=120&class=one-image&album=damjanci-ponaosob')`
I already have random.php in place. Does random.php has to be edited in any way?

fatman

you may try

`

<?php @readfile('http://yourgallery.com/zen/zp-core/random.php?<br />
num=15&height=120&width=120&class=one-image&album=damjanci-ponaosob') ?>

`

vidisad

@fatman
It's working!!! Thank you very much. I would like to have it on click to open main zenphoto site instead of random photo you clicked on. That way visitors would be aware of all albums there. I guess this could be done with changing values in random.php but again I'm not sure which one should be changed. Could you please point me to that value?

girlsspot

I had succeed according fatman's method. please go mysite http://girlsspot.info and see the effection on the right bar. You may set up a table or frame.

vidisad

Very nice web site and of course girls. The fatman's code works for me too but I was just asking what should I change to have the random image (on the external site) being linked to the main zenphoto site instead of to the full size random photo in the target album.

acrylian

You have to change the url in the random.php file. Look at this line: `$randomImageURL = getURL($randomImage);`
Replacing `getURL($randomImage);` with `getGalleryIndexURL()` should work.

vidisad

I did replace it as you advised but I got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in /home/da_mja_nac/public_html/da_mja_nci/zen/zp-core/random.php on line 36

acrylian

Sorry, I just did a quick look/guess and please note I actually never tried this script...

michaelsam

hi, this script doesn't work anylonger, can you help me please ?
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/555
i updated from zenphoto version 1.2.4 [3841] to 1.2.5 [4110]

michaelsam

thats the message i got
"Zenphoto Error
Bad gallery in album instantiation"

acrylian

In case you trying to get the image from a dynamic album, please see: http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1161

michaelsam

i copied the random.php from http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#random-image-external-site to my zp-core - i didn't create a dynamic album - where should i find that .alb file if one exists ?

i'm also using this script

<?

define('ZENFOLDER', 'zp-core');
define('WEBPATH', 'zenphoto');
require_once(WEBPATH . "/" . ZENFOLDER . "/template-functions.php");

$randomImage = getRandomImages();

echo "<img src='". $randomImage->getSizedImage(getOption('image_size')) . "'
alt=\"random image\"\n" . $randomImage->getTitle() . '" />';

?>

acrylian

.alb files are dynamic albums and therefor within the albums folders like normal albums.

Sorry, I can't help with that random addon as I did not write it. Try to contact its developer or maybe he will still visit this forum.

michaelsam

do have an other random script for me to use external ?

sbillard

The `bad album instantiation` problem is fixed now. Just as a note, this error message is part of the development builds. It is intended to help us find places where the zenphoto code is not correctly passing a gallery object. If you get the error, it would help us if you change the DEBUG_ERROR define to `true` as it will give details on where the bad instantiation occurred.

michaelsam

i changed now to debug_error true and got this message

Zenphoto Error
Bad gallery in album instantiation

Backtrace:

in Album->Album (template-functions.php [3356])
in getRandomImages (zp-foto-random-script.php [18])

line 18 in zp-foto-random-script.php is
$randomImage = getRandomImages();

sbillard

Ok, you are using zenphoto functions outside of the zenphoto gallery, aren't you? The varialbe $_zp_gallery is not set. You may run into any number of these. I suggest you include the following code in your script:
`$_zp_gallery = new Gallery();`
before you call any functions.

We will try to make a general solution to this as well.