How difficult to change zenphoto to an multi-user gallary system

clipper

Hi All,

I want to build a gallery system for our photo club. I found zenphoto is great, but I want the users have independent gallery set and configurations and theme, that means multiple site with single installation. But zenphoto does not support this feature now.

If I want to hack zenphoto to an multi-site gallary system, how difficult is it? and what is the best way to do this?

Thanks
Clipper

acrylian

Zenphoto supports multiple users and you can set different themes for each toplevel album. If you need different configuration you can set most options on each theme directly either via theme options or directly in the code.
You will have some work to do in any case.

sbillard

If you really have independent sites then you will have individual (site dependent) album/image lists. Is that the case? Then these sites are really unrelated (except by some convention). All you are missing if you just install zenphoto for each site is that you will have duplicate copies of the zenphoto scripts.

The current version of Zenphoto isolates its scripts from its data, so you can use simlinks to point each installation's script files to a single copy.

clipper

Thanks a lot. currently, the advice of Acrylian looks good for me.

But in the long run, Sbillard's advice is much more attract. I am wondering if we can take an approach like Wordpress MU do to convert Zenphoto into Zenphoto MU.