.. _glossary: Glossary ############ This glossary is under construction. .. glossary:: ACL Access Control List handles the permissions attached to an object .. seealso:: :ref:`acl` ApiGen ApiGen is a tool used to generate API documentation. .. seealso:: `ApiGen `_ Bundle .. seealso:: :ref:`bundle` Console Commands .. seealso:: :ref:`bundle` Controller .. seealso:: :ref:`controllers` DBAL Database Abstraction Layer .. seealso:: :ref:`database` DQL Doctrine Query Language .. seealso:: :ref:`database` Doctrine Doctrine is a library that offers a set of tools to give access to different databases. It can create entire objects and persist them to the database and also fetch objects from the databse. It is fully decoupled from Symfony. .. seealso:: :ref:`database` - http://www.doctrine-project.org Element .. seealso:: :ref:`elements` Entity An entity is a basic class that holds data. .. seealso:: `Entity `_ FOM Friends of Mapbender Bundle .. seealso:: :ref:`fom` Front Controller The Front Controller is always executed and routes internally to different URLs. Git http://github.com .. seealso:: :ref:`git` Lifecycle Callback They are used by the ORM and can be compared with database triggers. Lifecycle Callbacks are actions that run before or after an insert, update or delete of an entity. .. seealso:: :ref:`database` Mapbender-Starter Mapbender-Starter .. seealso:: :ref:`database` MapbenderCore MapbenderCore Bundle is essential for Mapbender. .. seealso:: :ref:`database` Namespace Namespaces are a way of encapsulating items. They prevent collisions among classes, functions and constants. .. seealso:: `Namespace `_ ORM Object Relational Mapper .. seealso:: :ref:`database` Phing Phing is a PHP project build system or build tool based on ​Apache Ant. .. seealso:: Phing - http://www.phing.info Profiler The Symfony profiler collects and stores a lot of usefull information. The information is collected on each request and stored for later analysis. Query Builder Query Builder is a Doctrine API to costruct DQL queries. It's mostly used to build queries dinamically basing on conditions, parameters, filters and also loops. .. seealso:: `Query Builder `_ SearchRouter MapbenderCore Element to set up a Search f.e. a street/housenumber search or a parcel search .. seealso:: :ref:`search_router` Slug A slug is a variable part of an URL. .. seealso:: `Slug `_ Sphinx Sphinx is a tool you can use to generate documentations f.e. html or pdf. .. seealso:: :ref:`installation_sphinx` Template When we talk about templates we talk about different designs for our applications. .. seealso:: :ref:`templates` - :ref:`twig` Twig Twig is a templating engine for PHP that is packaged in Symfony2 and offers an easy and powerful way to generate templates. With Twig we can separate the program functionality from design. A Twig file is a simple textfile from which you can generate every text-based format like html or xml. .. seealso:: :ref:`twig` XLIFF XLIFF is a file format and stands for XML Localization Interchange File Format. The translations can be stored in different formats. We use XLIFF-format for Mapbender3. Symfony will take the XLIFF-loader to load and parse the file. .. seealso:: :ref:`translation`