ok, i just have a few questions and feel that i should be able to incorporate zenphoto rather easily into my site. all these questions should be answered by anyone who has used zenphoto before i just dont want to mess anything up

1. I want my albums to list in my navigation, is the easiest way to do this simply by querying the database and using html to give them links and all that?

2. what do i have to type into my browser to be able to go into zenphoto, this is going to be on a website for someone else and i want to work rather seemlessly is this possible?

3. should i design my own theme for these purposes?

#1. Not sure just what you want, but maybe it is an album menu--http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/zenphoto/_plugins---print_album_menu.php.html

#2. This will depend on your installation. If you have installed your zenphoto in a folder named `zenphoto` on your server--`www.mydomain.com` then the link is http:\\www.mydomain.com\zenphoto

3#. None of the packedged themes have the print_album_menu incorporated, so you will have to at least modify a theme to get this functionality. A search on this forum on `menu` will turn up several threads which may be of use to you. Always when modifying a theme it is a good idea to copy and rename it first so that future updates to zenphoto do not overwrite your work.

1. i can make my own function to go into the zencart database, query it for the album names and then link them to the albums themselves.

what is the css file name, i can just change this to modify the whole appearance correct?

What is the zencart database?

The css file name would depend on the theme (and perhaps the personality of the theme.)

You might also want to review: http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#zenphoto-as-plugin.

You can certainly query directly into the Zenphoto Albums table for the albums. But remember that Zenphoto uses lazy evaluation to populate its tables. An album will not appear in the database until someone has viewed it.

could i not just query the database for zp_albums and display the names as links to the album?

you said to look at zenphoto as plugin also, i am having a tough time all i want to do is have zenphoto integrate in and look as though it is part of my site, basiclaly by changing a few colors, adding my banner and navigation and thats it.

what would be the easiest way for me to do this?

editing an existing theme or jsut creating my own?

#1 is already done by the print album menu plugin.

so the only way to get it to work in my site seamless would be to make a new theme?