Glossary August 21, 2008 / Updated: August 08, 2023

A glossary to define a few terms regarding Zenphoto.

Admin

The administration backend of zenphoto. Also called the backend.

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 / folder name

The folder name of the album on the filesystem. This is independed from the actual album title and used in URLs. For subalbums the name includes all parents (e.g. album1/subalbum1)

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 themes with each top level album instead of the same main theme for all. Bascially any theme can be used as an album theme.

Album thumb

A thumbnail representing the album. This is either chosen automatically or specifically set. Functions for album thumbs also support showing the lock image in case the album is protected.

Custom (theme) page

See https://www.zenphoto.org/news/theming-tutorial#static-custom-pages-optional 

Default sized image

The large uncropped image usually seen on the single image theme page. Default refers to the usage of option value set on the theme options. Themes may choose not to use these options.

Default thumb

The thumbnail, cropped or uncropped, using the theme options. Themes may choose not to use these.

Dynamic album

This is not a real album having a folder within the "albums" folder, but is generated by search results.

Full (size) image

The original image you have uploaded.

Gallery

The entire Zenphoto installation including all albums.

Image filename

The filename of the image within 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)

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.

Sidecar files

These are additional files to the actual main "image" specifially for "non image" items. For video/audio these include the video thumb, additional counterpart file formats or subtitle files

Sidecar thumb/Sidecar image

On non image file Zenphoto naturally cannot generate any resized/cropped images or thumbs. Therefore a specfic image with the same name (video.mp4 with video.jpg) acts as the thumbnail image for it.

Sized Image

The "big" image you see if you click on a thumbnail within an album, usually uncropped

Custom sized Image

This can be any image and be cropped or uncropped and be used as thumbs or sized images. The difference is that this does use custom sizes defined on theme page itself and using the "default" value set on the theme options.

Maxspace Image

An uncropped custom sized image that is sized within the width and height values defined.

Name

The general term referring to filename (images), folder (albums), titlelink (Zenpage articles, categories and pages). The name is usually required to create item objects via classes.

Thumbnail

The small usually cropped image within an album.

Theme / Template

The design (or frontend) you are using for your gallery which visitors see. 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.

Titlelink

The titlelink is the equivalent to the album name and the image filename only for Zenpage news articles, news categories and pages. It is used for the URL and independent from the title.

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.

Video thumb

See sidecar thumb above

Zenpage / Zenpage pages

This refers to the Zenpage CMS plugin. Don't confuse the plugin with the Zenpage theme.

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