zenphoto 1.0.0 beta released!
So the moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! We put out a new zenphoto release today. For the impatient, grab it here. For those who are interested, here’s the list of all the new features:
- Drag and drop sorting of the Gallery and Albums (and there was more rejoicing!)
- Album and Image deletion from the admin section (be careful!)
- Comment notification (so now you know what people are saying about you)
- Improvements to the Admin section
- And many behind the scenes architectural improvements.
You can check the full changelog here.
WARNING: Although we have made substantial progress in this release, this is still a beta.
Make sure that you take good backups of anything you can’t afford to lose when you upgrade.
Just in case..
Upgrading
First, make sure you back up your DB tables. Next, upload the new files over the top
of your existing installation. You will have to update your config.php file manually
with the new [admin_email] field and the new pathing at the bottom. Did we say back
up your DB tables? Finally, load http://hostname/zenphoto/zen/upgrade.php (or whatever
your path is) in your browser. Click on Go and watch the magic.
Known Issues
You may have to delete your admin cookie and log back into your site after the upgrade.
You may not. Let us know.
Requests
As usual, please post all issues to the Support forums. We also like to know when things
go right and how pleased people are 
If you are keen to keep abreast of zenphoto changes
you can do so by following the zenphoto categories at Tristan’s and my blog.
Future Directions
We do listen to what everyone is saying. Really, we do. We try. So here are a few things that we know everyone would like: WP plugin(s), RSS feeds, easier installs, etc. We’ll get there. For now, enjoy!
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Sweet. Bloody nice work
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WOO HOO! Hot damn! downloading and installing right now! Thanks so much for all your guys hard work.
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ditto
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Well crap. I posted this at the forums, but i dont know how often that gets checked. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated:
I backed up everything, and then copied the new files into my zenphoto folder on my server. First issue i got was a connection error, for some reason i kept getting a mysql error in connecting. So i went into functions-db and manually changed the connection string with hardcoded user and password and host. Then it couldnt find the Table, so i manually changed the line that referenced that. Then it connected fine but then i got this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getTitle() on a non-object in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\kamnikars.com\zenphoto-new\zen\template-functions.php on line 399
at this point I realize i’m in over my head and i went back to version 0.9 and everything seems to be working fine. My best guess is there is something in my setup that doesnt like the zp_conf array and thats why i couldnt connect. I have no clue whether this array is accessed by the getTitle() function. But maybe the same underlying issue is affecting that as well?
for the record i’m running php5 and MYSQL 4.1.14 on Apache. (xampp)
TK
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Luckyspin reply on January 11th, 2006 2:07 pm:
Yeah, the underlying database problem is probably the root cause of this. getTitle() is in most cases attempting to access some data that was retrieved from the database. Either the album or image meta data. You’ll need to solve that issue first.
However, it shouldn’t be too tricky, the config.php file has not changed that much from version 0.9 to 1.0. You could try your old config file and see what happens. If that works, you know it’s a problem with your new config file. White space at the top, or something like that.
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Luckyspin reply on January 11th, 2006 2:08 pm:
By the way, w.r.t to the Forums. I try to check them every day and answer as many posts as possible.
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Luckyspin reply on January 11th, 2006 11:46 pm:
Oh, we love you testers! So the fatal error was not caused by a config file, but an edge case where you have not added any albums yet, but want to view your gallery. Yeah.. we should have tested that =(
Anyway, the fix is simple, add this to line 265 of template-functions.php (i.e. in the next_album method):
if (empty($_zp_albums)) { return false; }
And also add this at line 545 (i.e. in next_image):
if (empty($_zp_images)) { return false; }
Sorry about that! *mumble mumble beta mumble mumble*
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Quoting >>> WARNING: Although we have made substantial progress in this release, this is still a beta. Make sure that you take good backups of anything you can afford to lose when you upgrade. Just in case..
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ya may wanna chnage that can to cant afford…
little ticked cause i downloaded this 2 days ago and just finished installing and now theres a new realease!!!…lol my head hurts from trying to get it to blend in with word press…
well done tho i cant wait to upload it to mine
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Luckyspin reply on January 11th, 2006 2:04 pm:
Oops! Thanks for spotting the typo. Fixed.
Well, there weren’t a lot of changes from a couple of days ago. You probably just need to update the files in you /zen folder and that’ll be it.
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Lee reply on January 12th, 2006 4:45 pm:
Thanks mate and yvw … i have upgraded smoothly
Thanks to you and Tristan :thumbsup:
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Very nice, can we make subcats too? Or is this still wip? Keep up the good work guys!!!
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Luckyspin reply on January 11th, 2006 4:12 pm:
WIP I’m afraid. That’s one thing I forgot to put on the list, but yeah.. we know it’s needed.
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Ok guys im having a small problem… Shud i post here???
i started from scratch.. after i acidently broke my website.. wasnt that bad its only a small site and gallery….
Now heres the prob..
its not showing any pictures.. i noticed it hasnt cached them either both my cache and albums is chmod to 777 i see the pictures in the data base… any ideas on what i have done wrong??
Thanks for your vauable time
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Lee reply on January 13th, 2006 3:46 am:
Aww chit im sry guys delete this and my abv post.. i should read with out the kid on my lap.. im going thru all the suport threads..
Thank you
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[...] DOwnloaded the new ZenPhoto Beta and its running smoothly im just gota organise my albums and the gallery will be back up tomorrow … Luckyspin [...]
I ran into problems with zen running in a secured server.
I had to change
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Hello,
Is it possible to run Zen on a website/server and to have original photos on a remote (more space) server?
thanks
Pascal
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Luckyspin reply on January 15th, 2006 11:26 pm:
I suppose so, but you would have to edit the code. zenphoto’s simplicity really stems from the design philosophy that all you need to do to create a new album is upload a new set of pictures to a folder.
However, to achieve what you want, you have two options:
1) Hack i.php to load the picture from a remote server
2) Just setup zenphoto on the server with lots of space, and
use create some pages that mimic the themes, but that retrieve everything from the remote server.
Good luck!
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Root installs. Really would like to have that.
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