Hi all. this is for those wanting a gallery inside zencart!
Been a while since I was in here. Building a new shop for my wife and she decided she wanted a gallery for saold items.
I first looked at the gallery2 mod. It works, but I always found gallery 2 was a real pain to administer, and my wife could not find her way around it with ease, so I searched for an open source gallery that would integrate with ease, and boy did I strike gold.
PLOGGER I downloaded it, uploaded it into a folder in the shop root called galler, ran the install, placing it inside the same database as the shop (simply for convenience) made a few name changes to the page 2 of the shop (so it reads gallery) and then did the following to display the gallery inside the shop.
Open your_template/common/html_header.php
At the top place(above everything on the page) <?php require("path/to/your/gallery.php"); ?>
Then inside the head of this page add <?php the_gallery_head(); ?>
Then goto the shop admin, define pages editor (in editor mode not plain text) and open the page 2
View it in source mode and remove everything you see their
then insert <?php the_gallery(); ?> save and test
Works perfect
You can change the style of the gallery from within the gallery themes folder.
The only negative is that the admin for the gallery is not integrated, but thats a small price to pay for something so simple to use and even simpler to install.
Hope you find it of some use.
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