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Zenphoto and PicLens
I have been trying to get Gallery2 to work with PicLens and realised that trying to get the simple RSS feeds to work was more effort that i wanted to apply. So i reinstalled ZenPhoto and will be using that again as soon as i integrate it into wordpress and get a theme built up for it.
But after a few minutes of trial and error i have a working RSS feed for ZenPhoto to use with PicLens.
How?
Its simple! Rename your old rss.php file to back it up, upload the new file to the root of your ZenPhoto installation.
That’s it!
You may not get the little blue icon showing up on all images depending on how many RSS items you have and how many images are in your gallery.
For example. If you have a 100 images and your RSS is showing 50, most likely the first 50 images will not show up in PicLens, its up to you on how many items you want to display.
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May 26, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Ill have to upgrade the gallery to see if i have the same issues.
May 24, 2008 at 5:14 pm
the above post obviously didnt work. please either see the rss.php file or go to
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=3084&replies=3#post-18416
May 24, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Thanks for the script, but i had two problems with it:
1. The full images were too small
2. My the feed worked with PicLens but stopped working with other readers.
I didnt sit around and somehow (obviously by magic since ive never touched php) made my own rss file that fixes both problems. As well as that - it is the rss file which comes with the new version of zenphoto.
if anyone is interested, the lines you have to add are:
change
to
and add
<?php echo ”;?>
<?php echo ”;?>
sometime after category tag.
The 200 and 2000 are the sizes for the thumbnail and full image respectively, 2000 being the max - thus if image is larger it downsizes if not leaves it at what it is. (i believe u can change this in zenphoto settings to your liking)
the complete file if anyone is confused is at http://www.superoforma.com/rss.php
Hope this helps sum1
May 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hi Adam
Great script !
But, when I tried it (commenting the password section to avoid problems), PicLens displays black images instead of thumbnails. Have you any idea?
May 8, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Awesome, thats what i like to hear!
May 8, 2008 at 2:07 am
Thanks Mr Scriptman!
Worked out of the box, no hacking requred. Ten second install.
April 21, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Are you accusing me of steeling this script?
April 20, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Incase people have missed it line 17 needs to read
if(!checkAlbumPassword($albumcheck['folder'], $hint)) {
as stolen from tiolon on the zenphoto forum.
March 17, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Unless all the features in Gallery 2 are going to seamlessly work in Wordpress with WPG2 then i think ill still stick with Zenphoto, its smaller and less of a drain on the server.
March 9, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Good news for Gallery 2 users. Gallery 2 will have native PicLens support in the next major release (Gallery 2.3). Look for it in the nightly snapshot starting next week.
Of course that also means that the new slideshow module has a media RSS feed which can be used with any other slideshow program that can deal with it.