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Zenpage can't use photos from the albums?

daks Member
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Hi all,

after looking and testing a lot of photo publishing software, I finally choose Zenphoto which seems to cover all my needs for the moment. It works, it's simple and light.

I also found the zenpage plugin, which seems a good idea, so I installed it too on my installation, and now I'm testing it to see if i really need it or not.
And something is bothering me: i can't find the way to create a zenpage page or article and easily link it to an actual gallery.
My ideal workflow would be:
- create a new gallery or subgallery in zenphoto
- put it in photos, set settings...
- create a new page or article with zenpage and use it to indicate the new gallery creation. I mean easily insert an image or thumbnail from my gallery which link to it.

is this possible and how?
or is the philosophy of zenpage totally different? ... and i missed it :)

Thanks in advance.

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    No, the philosophy is actually the same. Regarding links to albums and images there are currently two ways:

    1. Use the CombiNews feature which will show each newly uploaded image as if it was posted in the news section automatically. But the drawback is that it will show every image, so if you post a lot of images that can be inconvenient. An option for latest albums automatically is planned for the next version that has no date set yet.

    2. Be a little patient, there is an extra goodie on its way to do this. I had no time to finish this feature for the initial release...:-) Yes, this is a pre-announcement. Stay tuned on the forum or subscribe to the RSS on the zenpage site.
  • daks Member
    1. Use the CombiNews feature which will show each newly uploaded image as if it was posted in the news section automatically. But the drawback is that it will show every image, so if you post a lot of images that can be inconvenient. An option for latest albums automatically is planned for the next version that has no date set yet.
    I have found the CombiNews feature and activated it, but i'm not sure it does what i want.
    It seems to permit to combine in the same webpage galleries (from original zenphoto) and news (from zenpage).

    But maybe i wasn't clear in my original post.

    What I want to do (or know if it's not possible) is:
    when creating a new page or article and choosing "insert a new image" to be able to insert photos from my galleries. Actually the image selector shows me a completely different directory hierarchy.
    Looking on my server, my galleries are on /albums and the hierarchy that appears in this insert photo dialog is on /uploaded

    Is this normal?
    Is this possible to change this behaviour?
    Or is there something wrong in my installation?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    The CombiNews features just lists all uploaded images as if they were news. They are not really news they just look like.

    Yes, it is normal that the image selector points to /uploaded as this is meant for other files than the gallery ones that are already managed by Zenphoto's edit page. The reason to have that separate is that you do not want all files to appear in the gallery, right? Also Zenphoto doesn ot support all file types, so here you could manage pdfs for resumees, portfolioe extracts etc etc. Just everything not for the gallery itself.

    Anyway, I did understand you correctly and you didn't read my first post correctly...:-) Please take again a look at 2.
  • daks Member
    Anyway, I did understand you correctly and you didn't read my first post correctly...:-) Please take again a look at 2.
    Ok, better... i wasn't sure if my post was clear.

    So development is on the way to had this feature. In the meantime, is there a way to do what i want to do [1] or maybe to test your code?

    If not... i'll simply stay tuned.

    Thanks for your work and for responding so quickly.

    [1] i have tested changing the `$folder = "../../../uploaded/";` in setup.php with no success
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    You can test it when I have released it. That will be very soon. Just stay tuned. I will post here on the forum and on the Zenpage site.

    It is not possible to move the uploaded folder without hacking the file manager directly which is adapted third party work. The only workaround for now is to move the albums folder into the uploaded folder. You need to set the new path in zp-core/zp-config.php then ($conf['album_folder']).

    But the coming feature will be much more convenient...:-)
  • albeezie Member
    Awesome. I had been loading the file from cache before, but that can fail, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
  • daks Member
    For the impatients (like me), here are the steps to permit this until this feature is done:
    - edit plugins/tinymce/plugins/ajaxfilemanager/inc/config.base.php to change the 'uploaded' references to 'albums' ones (CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_PATH and CONFIG_SYS_ROOT_PATH)
    - edit plugins/zenpage/setup.php to do the same thing

    It's not very clean (updates can break it all) but it works.

    That's all... now i can test more heavily zenphoto and zenpage, and wait for the next releases.
  • NaturalEnquirer Member
    Has an update been made to allow the inclusion ofphotos from Zenphoto albums within Zenpage news articles or pages?
  • sbillard Member
    There are multiple ways to do this. Probably your best bet is to take a look.

    You can use codeblocks or you can insert zenphoto objects into your pages.
  • NaturalEnquirer Member
    I'm assuming then that a non-progrmmer still can't insert images using the editor, as in insert link or insert uploaded images. Thank you.
  • sbillard Member
    Yes, there is an icon on the editor with ZP that gives you this facility.
  • NaturalEnquirer Member
    Thank you. It was not obvious to me at all.

    I just now discovered that icon as well. I have to say when I saw the icon labeled as tinyzenpage.desc, it did not seem the place to look for this facility - I would not have checked it out except I finally tried that icon to see what it did.
  • sbillard Member
    It really should be displaying a description of the button. You are right that what it displays is not very useful. Acylan is the expert on this facility, so maybe he can make it better.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I am not sure if it is possible to change that button text to something descriptive. Will take a look.

    But there is a troubleshooting entry how to use images in pages and articles which leads to a set of screenshots:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/troubleshooting-zenpage/#19

    tinyZenpage is also mentioned on Zenpage's plugin page.
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/zenpage-a-cms-plugin-for-zenphoto/#tinyzenpage

    Update: Description added in the svn now. It will however not be translatable.
  • NaturalEnquirer Member
    Thank you for the links - I just couldn't seem to find the docs on this. Actual program is great, but docs are always hardest thing to get user-friendly! (I should know since I used to be QAT / tech doc writer.)
  • sbillard Member
    Well, we are always looking for help. So far we have not got anyone to volunteer to make user docs. (I am sure you understand how that is NOT something you want to rely on the developers to produce.)

    If you will work on this we developers will provide you all the support you might require.
  • NaturalEnquirer Member
    If I had time and really knew product, I would be glad to help, but neither is the case at the moment.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    This is what we expected. No offense though.
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