1) Be able to sort images in an album by random. That would be cool in a best-of album to ensure that the same first few photos are not always the ones getting more views

2) Path independent URLs for images. I tend to move photos around quite a bit. It'd be nice to be able to refer to some of them directly for inclusion in blogs. Something like:

http://mysite.com/zenphoto/byID/2938 (better for SEO)
or
http://mysite.com/zenphoto/image.php?id=2938

Thoughts ?

#1 would be possible.
#2 probably not. It would require the equivalent of a Domain Name Server for images.

Please submit a feataure ticket.

#2, I am not sure what you mean. DNS server for images ? Wouldn't all you need is a modification to i.php that would handle a different way to specify an image (by ID instead of Path). Or a whole new page that does so ?

(I hope you're ignoreing the mysite.com stuff, that's just an example domain name).

The example you cite does not involve i.php at all. It goes through the mod_rewrite rules to pull out an album and image name (which are missing). So, it would normally load the index page. The whole load sequence would have to be modified to handle that.

Besides, where would you get that id in the first place? Would you have us modifying all the URL generation?

No, I am just looking for a way to reference an image outside of its location in the album hierarchy so that my blog doesn't lose its images if I need to move them around.

I understand the problem, just trying to suggest things, not knowing a lot about the internals of ZP.