Hi there

For my album I would like to get the image URL of a thumbnail. If I use the getCustomAlbumThumb() function, I might get this URL if the thumb is already generated, but for new thumbnails I will get a URL like "/zp-core/i.php?a=..." that will generate the thumbnail when called in a browser.

However, I need to get the real image URL (because my code wants to further process the image, which does not work when I give it the i.php URL). Do you have any ideas how to accomplish that?

I need some function like: "If the thumbnail of album X does not exist, generate it. Then give me the URL to the generated JPG file."

Thank you! :)

Well the first part "f the thumbnail of album X does not exist, generate it." is exactly how zenphoto works. Take a look at your cache folder, you can directly link to images there if they have already been cached.

So, the solution is to precache the images.

So, the solution is to precache the images.

That is exactly what I want ZenPhoto to do for me automatically without any action of me. :-) How can I achieve this?

We have buttons for caching in the admin, one for the complete gallery and additional ones for each album. And a user posted a shell script for that on the forum today, too.

If you don't want to use that, an uncached image is cache whenever a visitor first visits it on your site.