1. Introduction  
2. The ALHAMBRA survey  
3. The code  
3.1. Main ingredients of the stellar population code  
3.2. The core of the MUFFIT analysis techniques  
4. Intrinsic uncertainties and degeneracies with ALHAMBRA galaxy data  
4.1. Selection criteria of ALHAMBRA red sequence galaxies  
4.2. Photon-noise uncertainties  
4.3. Photometric redshifts in the ALHAMBRA survey  
4.4. Impact of the photometric-redshift uncertainties  
4.5. Degeneracies  
5. Testing the performance of the code with ALHAMBRA galaxy data  
5.2. Photometric EWs of emission lines  
5.3. The stellar populations of M32  
5.4. Ages and metallicities of early-types in the local Universe  
5.5. Comparison with spectroscopic stellar-population studies  
6. Summary and conclusions