Gallery Integration with Zencart

[spottedhaggis]

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.

[spottedhaggis]

ok, so it almost works. Displays fine until you select an album at which point your taken back to the shop home page, or infact the site root.

Probably a way to fix it so will see what can be done.

[Marg]

How's it going?

[spottedhaggis]

Its working,! and the stupid thing is I did nothing reallly to get it working

Installed, and it failed to work correctly, in that you can click on the link to page 2 of more info, which contains simply a php call and it opens the page correctly, but then when clicking on the gallery itself it took me back to the main shop page.

I looked and could find no reason for it, so re-uploaded the files again, and now its working

see it here (demo site not yet fully populated.

http://www.breezy.biz - look at the more info

[Marg]

Very nice... Thanks for the info!! Something new to "play" with!

[spottedhaggis]

After a little modification now when you click the gallery page link it opens up the default album, so if you dont need to have seperate albums, you can simply define one album and go right to it on the click.

Their is a version on the forum that someone created that includes a lightbox, but I found it to be problematic so decided not to implement it.

Since its theme based modification to it is very easy.

[barco57]

More info please.
I have tried this and I have the same behavior you originally reported. The page load but when clicking on an album I end up at the store index page

[spottedhaggis]

Well the good news is I managed to destroy my Zencart so started again, and without re-installing gplogger I now havethe same issue, so if I fix it, Ill let you know in detail everything I did.

[barco57]

Well to bad. Hopefully you get it working right. I do understand that once you bring up the "gallery" page and hover the collection that you would like to look at, the url actually points to the store index.php, so it doesn't know what to do with the extra level and id in the url, so it defaults to the store main page. I don't have a clue as to how to get around that.

[barco57]

Ok, its dirty and I don't like it but I can run the Plogger gallery in an iframe on the define page 2 and everything seems to work ok......I did have a problem with comments but a little hard coding of the return url after submiting the comment fixed that.