ZenPhoto

A little glossary to define a few terms regarding Zenphoto.

Admin

The administration backend of zenphoto

Album

The actual collection of images (and movies) that are within a folder within the “albums” folder.

Albums folder

The “albums” folder is located in the root of the Zenphoto installation and contains the folders of the actual albums.

Album name

The folder name of the album on the filesystem. This is independed from the actual album title and used in URLs.

Album title

The title of the album you can enter on the backend. This is independed from the actual album name.

Album theme

A theme that is attached to a specific album. It is possible to use a different theme with each top level album instead of the same main theme for all. Bascially any theme can be used as an album theme.

Custom (theme) page

See http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/theming-tutorial/#custom-pages

Dynamic album

This is not real album having a folder within the “albums” folder, but is generated by search results or tags.

Full (size) image

The original image you have uploaded.

Gallery

The whole zenphoto installation including all albums.

Image filename

The filename of the image with its album on the filesystem and used in URLs.

Image title

The title of the image you can enter on the backend. This is independed from the actual filename.

Index / Gallery home page

The index.php page is thet first page you see if you call your gallery.

Locale

The language you are using for the backend and theme translation. Also the identifier of that language (e.g. de_DE, en_US)

Nightly / Nightly Build / svn

The development version (subversion) that is to become the next official release. It can be downloaded on our download page. It’s most of the time pretty stable, but may be incomplete in parts or contain bugs.

Options / Admin Options

The options to be found within the zenphoto admin.

Root

The main zenphoto folder

Setup

Zenphoto’s installation/update script located in zp-core/setup.php. Usually should run automatically whenever you update.

Sized Image

The “big” image you see if you click on an thumbnail within an album.

Thumbnail

The small usually cropped image within an album.

Theme / Template

The design (or frontend) you are using for your gallery. Themes are installed within the themes folder of your zenphoto installation.

Theme files or pages

This refers to index.php, album.php and image.php and sometimes to search.php and archive.php. See the theming tutorial for details.

Unpublished/not visible

Unpublished/not visible items are not viewable by users not logged in or for users with no rights for those items. These items are not protected and acessible if the direct link is known.

Zenpage / Zenpage pages

This refers to the CMS plugin Zenpage. Don’t confuse the plugin with the Zenpage-default theme.