I have a Coppermine Gallery with over 20 000 photos. Is it possible to import all pictures to zenphoto ?

As far as the ammount of photos, in theory, it should be fine as long as your server has enough capacity for all the photo and the processing power to generate thumbnails.

more specifically, are you talking import as in importing comments and other metadata from coppermine to zenphoto? As far as I have seen, nobody has done that yet.

Theoretically possible though. Coppermine uses an image table and a comments table similar to zenphoto, so it's a matter of writing an import tool to migrate the data, probably including image titles and descriptions if you've typed them (for 20,000 images though? I hope not). It wouldn't be fun, but not terribly difficult either.

If you just want the photos, just copy them into the zenphoto /albums directory and you're gallery is complete. Yes, it is that easy.

I'ld like to bring this thread back from the dead. I'm thinking of making an import tool from coppermine to get the metadata (picture descriptions are the only thing I really care about). Is there an API doc for the meta data for zenphoto?

thanks,
-m

Sorry, no manual. There is the database definition. The fields should be pretty easy to decipher. But, you know what would be really nice? A tool that would move the copermine data into EXIF/IPTC fields in the image itself. Then Zenphoto would automatically make use of the information.

I created a basic script. all feedback, bugs, patches, etc welcome here : http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=5003

Hmm, didn't see your reply sbillard before making the script. Are there EXIF fields for title and description fields? The other meta data i grab is total hits and votes.

-m

There are EXIF fields for title and description among others. Not for hits & votes. Look at the array $_zp_exifvars in functions.php circa line 62 for the mappings.