Thanks for the script.

The reason why I am thinking about using the feed is because it's already there. You wouldnt have to make another MySQL connection. The second connection is what is causing problems w/ ZenShow as discussed above ^

Alltruist, have you tried ZenPressed? (v0.8 available at http://n00bism.net/dokuwiki/wordpress/zenpressed/) It also can add a random image into a WP blog. I just downloaded it, so haven't played much with it. Although I noticed that it seems to suffer from the first two issues I had mentioned in my 2007-11-19 comment.

Just curious if ZenPressed also exhibits the db error you had seen with ZenShow...

Yes, in zenpressed we can see code ( for case different databases for ZP a WP ):

$db = new wpdb( DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME, DB_HOST );

if I test this line in zenhshow.php ( just before $ZenDB = NULL; )
... it works fine :-) www.biglnet.com