20 Jul 09 ZenPhoto Uploader
The photo album software I use to store my photos on the web is ZenPhoto. It is a very nice photo gallery system, with themes, lots of plugins, nice administrative interface and plenty of other good stuff. The only problem I had with it was getting my photos uploaded. Sure, they offer a web interface, or you can upload a zip file, or use FTP but I usually need to preprocess my photos a bit. Rotate them, throw out the ones I don’t want to upload, and most of all I need to make them smaller, uploading them in the size I use on my camera takes forever. So, I decided to make a simple program to do these things for me.
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08 Aug 07 Using Wordpress authentication in Zenphoto
In a previous post I talked about how to integrate ZenPhoto into Wordpress. After I had done that for my own site I still wasn’t happy. I didn’t like the fact that I had to use seperate logins for Wordpress and ZenPhoto, I wanted this to be as integrated as possible. So I figured out a way to make ZenPhoto ask Wordpress for authentication credentials. In other words, if you’re logged into Wordpress, you’re also logged into ZenPhoto. This makes the user/password in the ZenPhoto config file meaningless. Here’s what you have to do to get this working: (more…)
06 Aug 07 Integrating ZenPhoto into Wordpress
ZenPhoto is a great image gallery written in php that I use on another page I have. It has a great admin interface and themes that are simple to use. I wanted to integrate it into a Wordpress blog so I looked around on the net and found a great article about it by a guy named Steffen Rusitschka. It explains how you can get your ZenPhoto gallery to look like your blog by including some Wordpress pages in your ZenPhoto theme. The article is at http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2006/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/.
His method works great but there were a few things that bugged me about it. (more…)
