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-====== Glossary ====== 
  
-A list of terms used within Piwigo. 
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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 HTML pages. For example, link color. 
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-**Gallery** : Each installation of Piwigo is a gallery. 
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-**MOD** : Code modifications. They have been replaced by plugins with Piwigo 1.7 (in 2007). You can [[http://piwigo.org/mods|browse MOD archives]]. 
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-**MySQL** : Database 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, see "Synchronization". 
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-**Plugin** : a means of extending the gallery by adding functionality without modifying Piwigo core code. 
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-**Private album** : An album with restricted access.  When an admin marks an album as private, you must give explicit permissions for each user or group to access that album. 
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-**Release** : Equivalent to "//version//". See more on [[about:release_and_branchs]] 
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-**Status** : the role of the user within the gallery. 
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-**Style** : see "Theme". 
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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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-**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. 
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-**Template extension** : alternative template files that change the functionality of the gallery and theme. 
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-**Theme** : The look and feel of the gallery.  Everything related to the display is in the theme. It includes CSS stylesheets, icons, template files. 
 
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