Block for Smartor's EZPortal

[eddiepacs]

I've been looking everywhere and cannot find for the best of me code that will allow me to add a block to my EZPortal.. which will show a random picture or whatever picture from my coppermine gallery.  I know theres one for Nuke, but how about EZPortal?!... the closest I could find is the following:

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<?php

//***Enter Path information here***
//***absolute path to main coppermine directory***

$copperminepath = '/coppermine/';  //***YOU MUST CHANGE THIS***

//This connects to the mysql DB
//***change username and password below***

$MZrandompic = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '1234567'); //***YOU MUST CHANGE THIS***

if (!$MZrandompic) {
echo( '<p>Unable to connect to the ' .
'database server at this time.</p>' );
exit();
}

//select photo DB
//***YOU MUST CHANGE THIS***

if (! @mysql_select_db('coppermine') ) {
die( '<p>Unable to locate the picture ' .
'database at this time.</p>' );
}

//This gets a random picture record from the database and
//the picture's location and displays it

$MZresult = @mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cpg11d_pictures ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,4");
if (!$MZresult) {
die('<p>Error performing query: ' . mysql_error() .
'</p>');
}

while ( $MZrow = mysql_fetch_array($MZresult) ) {

// $albumid = $MZrow['aid'];  //This gets the picture's associated album name
$pos = $MZrow['pid'];      //This finds the picture's coppermine location

echo('<P ALIGN=center>');

echo('<a target = "_new" href="' . $copperminepath . '/displayimage.php?album=' . $albumid .
'&pos=-' . $pos . '">'); //make thumbnail clickable

echo('<IMG SRC="' . $copperminepath . '/albums/');           //append base dir structure
echo($MZrow['filepath'].thumb_.$MZrow['filename'] .
     '" alt=' . $MZrow['filename'] . ' '. 'border=0 width=80 height=50>' . '</a>'); //outputs path from /userspics
}

//This displays the picture's album name and
//links it to the coppermine album

$MZalbumresult = @mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cpg11d_albums WHERE aid = '$albumid'");
if (!$MZalbumresult) {
die('<p>Error performing query: ' . mysql_error() .
'</p>');
}

while ( $MZalbumname = mysql_fetch_array($MZalbumresult) ) {
echo('<FONT SIZE=1>');
echo('<P ALIGN=center>');

echo('<a href="' . $copperminepath .
'/thumbnails.php?album=' . $albumid . '">' .
$MZalbumname['title'] . '</a>' . '</p>');
}

if (! @mysql_select_db('coppermine') ) {
die( '<p>Unable to reload the main website ' .
'database at this time.</p>' );
}

?>

but I dont know how to create a block to call it to see if it actually works...

i know how to create a block... and i know how to call the script:

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<? include("thescript.php") ?>

but i dont know how to put 2 and 2 together so that it works....i've tried different ways of geting it to work, but all has failed.

please help, i would really appreciate it

thanks,
ed