Zenphoto is a friendly application if the purpose is to have a web gallery. How about if we want it to be catalog-view such as amazon website? We don't want any ecommerce as it is intended for offline order and payment.

Currently, fields that available for album is location, date, etc. And I need more fields to be added to the fields. Can we have this in database-driven

You will have to know PHP well to do that.

Just adding them to the database will work for just displaying database data - you can access it by `$_zp_current_image->get('fieldname');` But you will have to modify admin.php to set it and save it.

What about the Custom Data field? You can put anything you want there.

Custom data field cannot be used as later i need to group the data. I know a bit of php. At which line can i use $_zp_current_image->get('fieldname');?

Do i need to alter the database?

I want to diplay catalog and there some data i need to group. That is why i can't manipulate the available options. The templates has also need to be modified

Thanks for replying.

is there any guide for group data by location? this as stated in edit album

Couldn't you use tags and dynamic albums for grouping?

that's not accomplished for what i want

cade, I apologize, but Zenphoto doesn't support adding extra data fields without considerable modification, and unfortunately we don't have the resources to help everyone with their customizations. As I said, you will have to be very proficient at PHP and programming to do that.

As Acrylian suggested, I would use tags if you want to group your images. I don't understand what you're trying to do, but that's the best way to group things together.

Perhaps we will have more ideas if you tell us exactly what you're trying to accomplish.