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| - | **Album** : A set of photos. An album can include sub-albums. A photo can belong to several albums. | ||
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| - | **Association** : A photo can be associated to one or several albums. A photo associated to no album is called an "orphan" photo. | ||
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| - | **CSS** : description language, used to describe graphic parameters of Piwigo's pages. For example, link color. | ||
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| - | **Gallery** : Each installation of Piwigo is a gallery. | ||
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| - | **MySQL** : databases engine. This is where Piwigo saves data like photo description or user comments. | ||
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| - | **PHP** : programming language used by Piwigo. | ||
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| - | **Physical association** : (only when using synchronization to add photos) after synchronization, each photo is associated with its physical album. | ||
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| - | **Physical album** : An album that is linked to a directory in the filesystem. | ||
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| - | **Private album** : when an admin marks an album as private, you must give explicit permission for each user or group. | ||
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| - | **Release** : equivalent for "//version//". See more on [[release_and_branchs.]] | ||
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| - | **Remote site** : photos can be accessed and managed from a remote location by Piwigo. The remote site must be reachable via HTTP. | ||
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| - | **Synchronization** : during synchronization, Piwigo will scan folders and files under the "//galleries//" directory and create corresponding albums and photos in the database. | ||
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| - | **Theme** : everything related to display is in the theme. It includes CSS stylesheets, icons, template files. | ||
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| - | **Template** : HTML pages models. Known as *.tpl files. PHP read templates files and convert them in pure HTML language. Compared to HTML files, template files may include loops or conditions. | ||