I am hoping to integrate some Zenphoto galleries and images into a MODx site, but am having some problems. If anyone has any ideas about what could be causing this I would be very grateful for any feedback. I will post this on the MODx and Zenphoto forums.

The following two bits of php code are intended to:

1. Allow the use of Zenphoto functions from a non-zenphoto site.
2. Display a random image from a Zenphoto album on the page.
   They seem to work as expected if placed in a page that is not part of my MODx site.
   If I place the code into snippets and place those snippets in my template I get the error message displayed below.

MODx and Zenphoto are both sharing the same MySQL database. The Zenphoto tables have a prefix of zp_ to keep them separate from the MODx ones. I did originally have a separate database for Zenphoto but had the same problem.

MODx is running from within the root of the site /. Zenphoto is in a folder called /zenphoto. I don't think there is a problem with the paths described as MODx appears to be reading the zenphoto 'template-functions.php' file OK. The correct user name and password are entered in the zenphoto config file. I thought that it might be a problem accessing the zenphoto config file so I added require_once('zp-config.php'); but it did not help.

I am using Zenphoto 1.2 and MODx 0.9.6.1

I should mention that the display of a random image is not all I wish to achieve by integrating Zenphoto! It just seemed like a good starting point for experimentation.

Andy

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I only know MODx by name but the point might be that you run it as a snippet (I assume that is code posted in a section or so) .
Try to include the defines and the require_once of the template-functions directly on your MODx template file(s).

Thanks for the response. It looks like I have to use "MODx snippets" for php functionality to be invoked. Placing all the code directly into the template file results in the following output on the rendered page: \"randomgetTitle() . '" />'; ?>
Any further thoughts greatly appreciated! Andy

Have you ever tried to run zenphoto as a plugin (not a snippet) with the OnWebPagePrerender event activated?
I never tried by now, but this is where i probably would start.
Good luck

The technical support guys from ICDSoft.com who host my domain have come up with a solution to this problem. Instead of placing the: [code][/code] as a snippet in a template it needs to be placed into the MODx index.php file.

The other code: [code]