I'm not even sure how to ask this question, so I'm not sure if the subject-title is appropriate, nor whether this has been covered since I am not sure what to search for.
I'd like to know if anyone thinks it's possible to load a ZP gallery into a webpage outside of ZP? That is, something like a PHP call of the gallery only, without the comments and other extraneous things.
I'm an illustrator and after years of making my site in hard html, mainly with Dreamweaver, I'm trying to find a way of moving it toward a more dynamic site. Preferably I'd like to have portfolio galleries created via tags or categories, but months of searching has turned up nothing (excpet for the ZP roadmap...).
So a mock up I made here shows something along the lines of what I am aiming for:
http://mrbiggs.com/html2/illustrationmain.php
Each of the above headers would call a ZP album. In addition, some dreamy day, I'd have a search so one could find tagged or keyworded images ("children's books," "monsters," "bugs" etc) which would also bring a gallery.
An example of one of my ZP albums is here:
http://mrbiggs.com/zenphoto/beastly%20rhymes/
So again, the idea would be to just load in the gallery part of this to another page. If this can be done using ZP themes, that would be great too. But I'm not sure if it can, and still give me the good URLs like "mrbiggs.com/illustrations/" and the like.

Lastly, if I'm completely lost and sound crazy, let me know that too.

Brian

Its 4am so you shall have to excuse any confusion but just so I know how to go about helping I would like to just clarify the following points within your question.

1. Are you asking how you would go about just including your gallery into another page that's now powered by Zenphoto.

2. If so/Or, else are you asking how to modify your template so it doesn't show the comments and comment form.

3. From looking at your website (and nice website by the way) I think it would be best to keep everything gallery related within zenphoto (like I have done with my website example: www.photogabble.co.uk/portfolio the gallery is same theme as main website).

4. Zenphoto doesn't yet support tags, nor search I think. However I was thinking of helping support the project by writing plugin code to add those features and may do so soon.

Thanks for the reply. To clarify:

1. No, the other way around. I'd like to "embed" one of my zen albums in another PHP page, NOT in my zenphoto directory. Just any PHP page. I've seen this done with Gallery2 with a @readfile call. Basically, I want ZP to power the galleries, but have them appear elsewhere.
2. I can get rid of the comments ok. You're right, I don't want them. But that's not the current concern.
3. I'm afraid that's what I'll have to do. I wish I could use ZP for something other than a mere gallery of pictures. I'd like it to be a real part of my site. But I don't want to have to use the ZP navigation. (In addition, I need to use videos and audio, so I'll probably end up having this done for me proprietarily or use Gallery2). Nice site you too, by the way.
4. I find lack of tags and search to be the biggest fault with ZP. But I understand the more 'stuff' it has the less fabulously streamlined and simple it is. I've learned to appreciate this about Gallery2, but I still like using ZP for my private picture galleries.

thanks again. For now, I believe the answer to my question is "nope."

Intergrating ZP into your website is pretty simple if you work with an existing template for your pages. Just apply the structure and css to the ZP templates and link to it. Its pretty seamless.

You can see how I use ZP here:
http://imagebaker.com

I use WordPress to form the main site, most of the images are links to ZP, while others are handled by the WP content manager. WP has a few plugins on the control panel side that makes inserting links to ZP images a lot easier.

If you click on ALBUMS it'll bring you to the ZP section.

All of this took me a while to figure out, I've done 2 versions of this over a years time. In the end I really found in order to control the applications I had to learn a bit of PHP.

Thanks for the note RogerUsh. I see from Imagebaker you're in Philly. Me too. Small world.

The way you've finessed the CSS of ZP is quite nice. But keeping the album separate from the rest of the site is still a bit different from what I am imagining. However, if I rethink this it might work along the lines of what you've got here. That is, all my illustration work, books, comics, etc, could be under a "work" category, powered by ZP, then split into albums (childrens books, editorial, etc). The "about" "news" and "contact" could be WP. However, I still run into the problem of audio and animation (mp3, flash and quicktime) that ZP doesn't support. Gallery2 does, and also searches keywords, so I might still end up there...

thanks again
Brian

Hi RogerUsh. I'm looking to do exactly what you did with your albums on my site. I'd like to simply display them within my blog (Wordpress) and let people navigate around in them. Nothing fancy. I found a few Wordpress plugins that will allow me to cherrypick out photos, which is the other half of what I want to do.

Can you provide any details of how you got the Zen albums to display on your site?

Thanks much.

Tim

Tsservo, I'm sure Rogerush can say if I'm wrong, but from his earlier post what I believe is going on is that when you are in the "albums" section, you are actually in ZenPhoto, no longer Wordpress. He's installed some Wordpress template structure to his ZP pages and configured the CSS of his ZP pages to look just his WP theme, and voila.
Somewhere in these forums chilifrei or trisweb has posted the code that one must use to get ZP to "see" the WP loop and allow the header and sidebar etc to show up in ZP. This way it's pretty seamless.
So in short, the Zen albums aren't displaying in WP. Rather it's the other way around -- the WP template parts are displaying in ZenPhoto. What you were asking is originally what I was trying to figure out...