Genealogy (Family tree) module
Black_MDK - June 23, 2005 - 06:22
Does anybody know of module that would deal with Genealogy and creating family tree or is there any previous or current development done that would do this?
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Sounds like for organizing a
Sounds like for organizing a family tree you can just build the family tree with taxonomy/categories (built in to drupal core) or use the book module to quickly create a page for each family member. then again, i'm not sure what you are doing with your family tree...but check out taxonomy first.
Simple family tree
I would like to have simple family tree module where you can add records (people) and show same records as tree view, like http://www.tufat.com/script1.htm
I'm interested too
I would be interested in a module like that too. It's for my dad. However, with the pricing of the TUFaT script I might as well buy it.
It doesn't need to be advanced. Just the possibility to add family members with name, birth date, comment, e-mail address and web site address. And then of course relations to father, mother, sons and daughters. Some way of making clean URL's would be cool too (e.g. www.myfamiliy.org/family/John_Schmidt/treeview).
Ideally, the module would support import and export of the GEDCOM XML format [PDF].
Best regards,
nielses
The tufat script is really
The tufat script is really nice. I use it for my family tree and my family has used it with relative ease.
I am thinking of using drupal for a site and wanted to incorporate the tufat pedigree into it....But I guess there are no posts on that yet.
-bock
-- http:://www.tomswifty.com -- rulz
TNG WORKS WITH DRUPAL!
http://tng.lythgoes.net/software.php
http://tng.lythgoes.net/faqs.php (search 'Drupal')
Works with Drupal! (costs $30.)
uses this to connect to Drupal (I got it after I bought TNG):
Drupal-TNG Enables single sign-on between Drupal and TNG. No changes to original TNG files required. Zip format. Last updated 6 Nov 2005. Please contact Cas Nuy (cas@nuy.info) for support on this product. Refer to readme.txt for installation instructions. License is GPL (TNG is *not* GPL, but this add-on is). Written by Cas Nuy (http://www.nuy.info).
Glitches with Integration
There are some glitches with this Cas Nuy TNG/Drupal integration. I have installed it on a site and if anyone would like further details or would like to check out the site let me know. I would rather not air out the laundry of the glitches here in a post.
However, it works decently well...in a hacky kind of way.
Cas script not secure
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but the integration script mentioned here is not altogether secure. As such, and because I would like to add additional functionality to the integration, I have begun developing an integration module.
http://drupal.org/project/TNGIntegrate
I would appreciate any help or feedback.
Looks good and is
Looks good and is inexpensive. Since it is maintained by one guy, how about roping him in to do the same as a drupal module?
I am willing to pay some bucks if others are interested. I have been looking for a genealogy module in drupal for long.
Another php based geneology script
Another fairly comprehensive (but not free) family tree product is The Next Generation at http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
Their site says this has integration modules for PostNuke, PHP-Nuke, CPG Nuke or Mambo, so why not Drupal?
If only I had the time ...
Next Gen works great with
Next Gen works great with Drupal and it's only $29. Why re-invite the wheel?
What do I need to be able to
What do I need to be able to make it work on Drupal?
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Two open source PHP genealogy packages
There are two good open source, PHP based packages:
1. PHPGedView:
http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/
2. PHPMyFamily
http://www.phpmyfamily.net/
The two packages uses a central database that enables multiple users to both view end edit the tree.
PHPGedView seems to me better - better access control, administrators can approve or undo any change, many trees and reports, etc.
I just install drupal and PHPGedview on my temporary family site
(herzl.roxr.com) and I plan to use both for the site.
I look for some options for combining ?Dripal and phpgedview:
1. Keeping them as two seperate subsites, making similar theme for both and putting same main menu, to give the filling of one site.
The advantages are minimal work and easy upgrade of each package without the need to redo the work of combining them.
2. putting PHPGedview as a frame inside the content area of drupal.
Advantages: as above + keeping the current menu, header and footer of drupal.
Drawbacks: smaller window area for phpgedview, might seems not so good, with double menus
3. Keeping PHPgedview as a backend that will be used by me and small number of people to update the database. Make my own presentation module for drupal that will access the phpgedview database and will present the data.
Advantage: better integration with drupal from the user point of view
Drawback: more work, don't use all the presentation capabilities of phpgedview.
4. Full integration of phpgedview as drupal module.
Advantage: best integration
Drawback: Lot of work, including learning much more about the two packages (I'm new to both drupal and phpgedview). Upgrades of the phpgedview will require to redo most of the work.
What do you think is the best approach?
creating a module sounds best
amnonj,
I am new with Drupal too. But I would think that 4 is the most desireable and is comperable to the Gallery Module. I think the first version of the module would end up looking like option 2, but then could be improved with development of module settings.
-bock
-- http:://www.tomswifty.com -- rulz
go for 4
I say go all the way! go for number 4.
also Full width is needed when looking at some charts.
You may want to keep an eye on this one also,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/genmod/
4 or a new drupal based project?
It is sure that no. 4 is the best, out of the four options, but it requires the largest work. I don't think I can make it alone. the question is if there are other people that want to do it together.
I start to think that if we going to do a project of that scale, maybe it will be better to do it from scratch, using drupal capabilities, as kbahey suggested below. It is seems that drupal structure suits well for such a project, so I don't think it will take much more than adapting other project to drupal. We may always use some routines from other open sources projects, e.g. GEDCOM import routines or reports/trees generation.
Sample Sites of GENMOD
as for GenMod can't seem to find any screenshots or samples of sites, nothing on http://www.genmod.net/forum/
Family Tree follow up...
Any developments on some of this integration? I checked your site and it seems like you are keeping them pretty separate so far. the UI of PHPGedview is pretty week, definitely needs some UI work before any themes clean it up. I would be into working on the UI part, I don't really know enough PHP to write a module intergrating the two.
Karl Erb
Communications Strategist
Information Architect, User Interface Designer
More than a family tree?
I'm interested in building a genealogy module, but with more than the simple family-relation stuff: I want to extend it to all sorts of historical data. I like the relationality of a family tree, but would like to also include places, events and artifacts (like photographs, maps, books, letters, etc.) in a well-structured way.
I'm thinking about using flexinode, with a different node type for each of the entities. The module that I see to be of most use would be one that could [export to | import from] GedCOM, XML etc., create Pretty Pictures (i.e. graphical family trees) and all the other stuff that comes with a genealogy app.
Drupal does relational stuff really well, and it's more or less exactly what a family tree is in a way; we just need the extra bits.
What do you think?
phpgedview does all that including the multimedia
phpgedview does all that including the multimedia stuff. It's been integrated into nuke so maybe you could take advantage of the work that's already been done on the genealogy front and integrate it with drupal. You just import a gedcom with media links and it does the rest. If you want to look at it in action at my site, go to http://www.sweetike.com/phpgedview/index.php. It makes blocks and an rss feed too. The pedigree chart page with the pictures is here: http://www.sweetike.com/phpgedview/pedigree.php. It'll handle sound and video too but I'm still getting to that.
Valerie
www.robcomm.net
What about a non-anthropocentric socio-history?
I know lots of the genealogy programs do have the functionality for multimedia etc., but what I'm really looking for is something that doesn't have as it's fundamental hub the Human. An archive directory of some sort, which can handle meaningful relations between archive obejcts. But not just artifacts: I want to include events, people and locations as well.
All the genealogy/archiving programs that I know of either include references to place and objects as incidental to the main aim of the program, or vice versa are primarily concerned with cataloguing real-world artifacts. (Does that make any sense?) The system I'm thinking of puts all records of people, places (locations), events and artifacts on an equal footing so far as the relations between them are concerned.
For example: a photograph has relations to the place it was taken, the people and things in it, and indeed the actual taking of the photograph should also appear as an entity. I know that this can (sort of) be done with existing software, but usually (or only, so far as I have found) by using it in a way for which it was not intended.
I don't know if I'm making any sense here; do you get what I mean?
I think I get you
You need to define "person node" type, "location node", "artifact node", etc, where each one has its own data + related links.
A person node will include data, such as:
- place (link to place node) & date of birth/death and possibly other events
- spouse, parents, childrens (links to nodes)
- Photos (links)
- Documents (links)
- Related stories, forum posts,... (links)
Similarly, a place node will include:
- links to people
- links to photos
- links to related stories
- links to containing places and contained places. e.g. Rome contains the Vatican and contained in Italy.
I think such a database structure is natural for drupal implementation and might be used for a drupal genealogy project as suggested by kbahey.
Such a structure may be very nice for a family genealogy, too, giving more complete image with links for related information regarding places, etc.
It will be very nice to click on a birth place name and see all the information about the place or to click on a photo and see who are the other people there.
Text Intensive Sites Tell a Story - But not Easily Searchable
i'm brand new to Drupal, but liking the depth of the database structure involved...i'm not sure i understand the node concept quite yet...
certainly understand your need to link people, places, photos, etc...not being able to do this makes creating links very time consuming...most Ancestrial Researchers want to get to a SURNAME front page, then link from there or back linking if end up deep within a site...
take for example the text site http://www.wolcottfamily.com/ very easy to get to the information if you know which name you descend from, but unfortunately he uses lots of images so not searchable...but as you get deaper in the pages, arranged numerically but tough to find http://www.wolcottfamily.com/watertown.html
links incorrect
Hi. The links to your site are incorrect.
Family Tree Module - update?
Hi, I tried the URL in your message and got a 404, have you moved it? Are you saying you integrated phpgedview into drupal?
Can you send a working URL?
I would be interested in any drupal family tree functions, particularly with assets and calendars, family member blogs and so on...
Karl Erb
Communications Strategist
Information Architect, User Interface Designer
PhpGedView with Drupal Integration
Valerie-
looks like you found drual-4.6.3 works better than phpgedview http://www.sweetike.com/drupal-4.6.3/famhist
like the look, see you're using PhpGedView for the Pedigree http://www.sweetike.com/drupal-4.6.3/pedigree/index.php
nice gallery, how do you like the Shutterfly integration???
-Scott
sorry about the 404's
Here are the proper paths:
Here's my current phpgedview installation though the path might change with a drupal upgrade to 4.7: http://www.sweetike.com/drupal-4.6.3/pedigree/index.php
If you want to see how it fits with my larger drupal family site, just go to sweetike.com.
As for drupal being better, it is for the text/book part, but not for the media and pedigree part. Drupal can't compete there. That's why we need some sort of integration or module.
Here's my big idea: Do a simple phpgedview integration that doesn't make the pedigree content into nodes (see how the menalto gallery2 drupal module works). Since the others who posted above think that a full integration would require a lot of redoing the phpgedview code, then why not take a cue from the people who did the menalto gallery2 integration: just make it so there's no dual login required and have the menus made into a drupal sidebar block that you can move around or activate/deactivate. If no one has the time to rewrite everthing right now, why not satisfy the needs of a lot of people by starting with something simpler. The menalto gallery mod is used by lots of people quite well without being so sophisticated that it makes every picture a drupal node, etc.
I think a phpgedview mod that
a. took the phpgedview menus and blocks and made them drupal blocks and
b. required no dual login
c. let phpgedview do all the gedcom/pedigree stuff
would be applauded by a lot of people.
In the latest sourceforge newsletter, phpgedview was again on the top 25 of downloaded projects and it has been for a long time. There is an active developer community and a big group of people on the phpgedview side that would also applaud a drupal integration module. A few weeks ago on the phpgedview group maillist, someone offered to contribute money for a drupal integration and there have been people in this thread willing to contribute. So maybe we just need someone to spearhead communication between the drupal people and the phpgedview people...any takers?
And then, if someone is feeling very ambitious later, they can write a complete drupal module that takes a gedcom file and makes every bit of information a drupal node for whoever might need that.
As for NextGen, it sounds great and the drupal community should be aware that they can purchase a genealogy program that works with drupal. But there needs to be an open-source effort too.
buoystretcher: the shutterfly integration is just one of the options in menalto gallery--I just used the gallery2 module I refered to above.
Interesting ...
I was interested in this a while back, but had to put this on the backburner for months.
My old notes say the following:
- It is best to be GEDCOM compatible (import and export). This way, users can use any viewer they like, and import data they have from other packages.
- It should allow updates by users who have a certain permission.
- My notes mention two packages http://www.phpgedview.net/ and http://www.giric.com/phpmyfamily/index.php but I forgot what the features are.
Now, for Drupal ...
It is best to write something from scratch to be tightly integrated in Drupal. For example, we have a new node type called "person"
Every "person" will have some basic data (name, gender, birth date, birth place, short biography, date of death, place of death, ...etc), as well as fields that link to other persons (parent, siblings, offspring, ...etc).
If we have those relations, then it is easy to "draw" a family tree, navigate the tree, export the data in whatever format, and then GEDCOM comes into play.
The structuring of the data, outlined above, is somewhat clear to me. The part that is not clear is the presentation (display) of the data. Large trees will not fit on a page.
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Can we start a project?
I just make my first steps with drupal, but already impressed from its design and couldn't miss how does it suit to the genealogy task.
Your guidelines sound great. The question is if we have the man power for such a project. I'll be happy to take a part in such a project, but I don't feel that I have enough knowledge and experience in drupal to lead it. Is there someone who have some experience in writing drupal modules and interested in such a project?
Regarding presentation - it's good to learn from genealogy softwares such as family tree maker (most popular) or legacy family tree. The second has a trial version. The main view for navigation throughout the tree is a "family view" that includes (this is for family tree maker, but very similar in other softwares):
- A couple (or only one person for singles).
- Main data for each of them:
- Date & place of birth
- Date & place of death
- Date & place of marriage
Above each of them there are linked names of their parents.
On the bottom, there is a table of childrens, with columns for:
- name
- sex
- Date & place of birth
- Date & place of death
For each person you can enter a window with all his data (there are many data pieces that can be attached in GEDCOM). For each data piece, you can see its list of sources.
For website presentation, I would add:
- Thumbnail photo near each person
- One or two family photos
- Biography (a few lines + read more link)
- Links for more info - documents, images, weblinks, etc.
Minimal requirement for first functional revision may include GEDCOM import, a family review for navigation through the tree and name index for direct access to selected people. Next, we can add other options, such as:
- text reports
- Family trees (ancestors of a person, descendants of a person)
- multi-user online editing with access control and approving/undo options.
- GEDCOM export
- search
- statistics
- events calendar
- privacy (show living people only to specific roles)
- relationship calculator (find the relationship of x to y)
I'm keen!
I think it's a great idea; let's do it. Where shall we start?
It looks to me like a few new node types are needed, as Amnonj said above, and indeed I've been playing around with this stuff just using flexinode and my own version of a node-to-node relationship module. But I keep thinking that just using the generic 'node' as a basic entity is not good enough, and I suspect that when we come to exporting (and importing, for that matter) we'll find that it's a pain to have everything buried in tables whose structure doesn't reflect the data's.
So to start with, how generic to Drupal do we want this to be? I mean, I can see it implemented (albeit in a indirect way) using almost only stock-standard Drupal features; at the other end of the spectrum would be Drupal acting as a platform on which we build a semi-independent genealogy database (Drupal to handle users, permissions, that sort of thing).
Of course, as is usual in these things, the middle ground is where we're heading: a new node type for a 'Person', whose data is stored in a specific 'genealogy_person' table? Or something like that. What do you all think?
Anyway, yeah, kick off the project -- let's get to work! :-)
I opened a website for the project
I opened a website for the project at:
http://family.jonasfamily.org
If you are intersted in the project, please enter the website.
Any help is welcomed - coding, features suggestion, documentation, graphic design, counceling, QA,...
Other genealogy software
It's worth having a look at: http://www.lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
It is a commercial package but it I think it gives some clues as to how to present information - the other packages mentioned may all DO all the right things but they also look horrid.
I am not up to speed on the field so I can't say whether this is any good.
GedCOM etc etc is still a mystery to me:-)
Project launched
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but the integration script by cas mentioned above for The Next Generation is not altogether secure. As such, and because I would like to add additional functionality to the integration, I have begun developing an integration module.
http://drupal.org/project/TNGIntegrate
I would appreciate any help or feedback.
Is there any progess on this?
Shall we open a bounty? How does it work?
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Lythogoe is the way to go
NextGen is by far the best web-based genealogy software bar none. It is so good that I use it as my primary database software and simply download the GEDCOM files it produces to other PC-based software for their graphing functions and such... but otherwise, its features beat almost any software. I have nearly 2000 individuals and 400 families in my database and it does a great job of cataloguing, sorting out ancestors, descendants, searching by SOUNDEX, etc.
Check out:
http://www.ramosfamily.org
I am embarking on a project to build a genealogy group site to replace our yahoogroup. I would really love to use Drupal but the GEDCOM software is the make or break. I am going to contact Darrin Lythgoe and see if he is willing to help me out on this.
Any other takers?
What do you mean?
Are you trying to integrate NextGen with Drupal? SO wht do you mean by"help me out on this?" I tried to email you, but you are not accepting emails. What do you mean by "the GEDCOM software is the make or break?" GEDCOM is an organizing principle, right, and xml hierarchy, not software.
A working Drupal module seems to me to be the ultimate goal. I installed the Family Module, and I am not sure how it works or what it is supposed to do.
I envision a whole site that is organized around surnames, so individual users are associated with surnames, first their own. So the gallery, blogs and forums are organized around families, THe family Tree module would be simply one view, but this does not solve the relationships needed to organize content around families.
Karl Erb
Communications Strategist
Information Architect, User Interface Designer
GEDCOM
You are correct that GEDCOM is an organizing principle and not software. Please excuse my imprecise terminology. What I meant is that whatever the data structure that is implemented in this module, it has to be compatible with GEDCOM, in terms of being able to import and export GEDCOM genealogy files.
My reference to NextGen is that it is the best web-based software available and should we try to find inspiration or examples from other software, that is where we should look. I am at this point considering simply integrating NextGen with a common logon into the remainder of the Drupal-based site since there appears to be no viable alternative at the moment.
The Drupal family tree module cannot be organized around surnames since parents often do not share surnames with their children. It would need to be organized around family groups with individuals being attached to family groups with any one of many possible relationships, e.g. spouse/parent, child, etc.
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding by Darrin Lythgoe
http://www.ancestry.com also groups by family, hence their nice graphical family tree layout. Take for example http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2270794&id=I503295200 with so many different options like:
1. Index - Lists every surname in a list that has a direct relation
2. Descendancy - shows the direct lineage in list form
3. Register - lists in story format
4. Pedigree - chart format
5. Ahnentafel - story format in outline tracing lineage
6. Download GEDCOM
7. Add Post-Em
I like your http://www.ramosfamily.org/ after finding it on your post http://drupal.org/node/25589#comment-95736
I like your Surname List http://www.ramosfamily.org/nextgen/surnames.php
What about the Printable Version of the Family Tree?
The family Photo Albums are nice as well, powered by Coppermine Photo Gallery
Noticed you didn't have many posts on your Message Board, any thoughts on why this hasn't been popular with your family, because of the format of YaBB SE
I too have been struggling with web-based genealogy software. Currently I have the following site http://www.behner.net/ that I've coded by hand. But I would love to implement an interface like Drupal or Mambo.
Tough because so many great searchable features by posting information on www.ancestry.com or on www.rootsweb.com especially with the Mailing List features and archive. Sure that data will be maintained long after the web has moved to its next stage and I'm on to different endeavors or if something ever happened to me to continue maintaining it.
What have you found from Darrin on his work, incorporating with Drupal? Very straight forward for a 1st time Drupal User?
With the popularity of Weblogs and Photo Galleries would be great to combine features of http://www.blogger.com and http://www.shutterfly.com is this available? My family can figure these out, so why not stick with what works.
Scott
Interested
I'm interested in this, and am just adding this to my recent posts lists. I'd like to create a site with both family tree info and a picture album.
Let me know if you need any help with PHP or MySQL stuff, cuz I'm pretty good at both.
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PhpGedView
I have been using PhpGedView which is a very sophisticated open source program. I wanted to use it for the family tree because it is so feature-rich and it has already got lots of things like sophisticated privacy options, and I wanted to integrate it into Drupal because Drupal is so much better at all the non-genealogy things.
It doesn't look like anyone else has done an integration with PhpGedView, so I started a project at http://drupal.org/project/phpgedview and uploaded some initial code. It's still very beta, but by creating a project we can do issue tracking, allow for feature requests, etc.
Anyway, if anyone is interested the code is available to try (use the cvs repository link on the project page.) Just be forewarned that it is probably *not* ready for a live site where you need to ensure that privacy settings are maintained!
yeehaw!!
Uh, I mean, wow--that is great news. Thanks so much for contributing your work back for the rest of us.
I'm very interested in this
I'm planning on putting up some family tree pages in the coming months so I'll be following this closely. Thanks for doing it. :)
Michelle
PhpGedView module ready for testing
The PhpGedView module (http://drupal.org/project/phpgedview) seems to be working pretty well now and I think it is ready for others to test it. You can use the issue tracker on the project page to report problems.
Enjoy!
Thanks!
I took a peek at the demo and it looks great. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.
Michelle
Also interested
I may be also downloaded and testing this within the next month. Sounds promising.
Thank you for your work.
Suzan
Hi, can this be ported to
Hi, can this be ported to Drupal 5 please?
Funny you should ask. I'm
Funny you should ask. I'm working on that right now :-)
Edited: An initial 5.x release is now available.
Thanks. I've just installed
Thanks. I've just installed it. On step 3 of your readme, it says:
Remove all login blocks from PhpGedView welcome and portal screens. You may want to move those
block files into another folder so they aren't available to users who customize their own screens
but are not lost in case you decide you want to use them again.
Can you tell me how I do that? I have no idea where to go to remove the login blocks... I looked in the Admin section of phpgedview but there's nothing obvious....
It would help me a lot if
It would help me a lot if people posted issues on the PhpGedView issue queue instead of in the forums. It's much easier for me to track things, and you may see your question is already answered on the queue.
You set up all the blocks on the Welcome page by clicking on the block that says 'Customize the GEDCOM Welcome Page'. That will take you to a window were you can select what blocks show up on the page. Just keep the login blocks off of it.
Is it OK to list issues
Is it OK to list issues here? This is whats happening on my embedded install: when I click on 'family tree' from my menu, it goes to the embedded application, but it opens the whole webpage again inside, like as if its opening within a frame, if you see what I mean....
???
Yes, it's in an iframe.
Yes, it's in an iframe. There is an explanation of that in the INSTALL.txt or the README.txt and again on the issue queue.
Well, I'm afraid my overall
Well, I'm afraid my overall impressions of PhpGedView so far are not good - its very unintuitive and not user-friendly at all :(
After working out how to set up the root individual, I now have two birth dates for some reason, when I was only editing the default '1850' birthdate. So because of this, its got my grandfather at 126 years old.... and I can't seem to get rid of it.
On the Drupal integration side, things look a bit better. Got the issues above, and also, in 'Map Users' it's got the PGV values blank.... even though the module lists all the correct member names, phpGedView isn't picing them up or.... am I supposed to individually add all the Drupal members into phpGedView as well....?
Also, when I click on Lists/Family List, I get a bunch of these:
ERROR 2: strpos(): Empty delimiter.
0 Error occurred on in function strpos
1 called from line 2000 of file functions_db.php in function get_alpha_indis
2 called from line 2204 of file functions_db.php in function get_alpha_fams
3 called from line 186 of file famlist.php
Warning: strpos(): Empty delimiter. in /..../modules/phpgedview/includes/functions_db.php on line 2000
I understand these aren't to do with the integration module, but you can hopefully shed some light.....
Sounds like you PgpGedView
Sounds like you PgpGedView installation isn't yet set up right, but I can't be more specific than that. Did you get it working as a stand-alone installation? If you still have problems on that end, there are PhpGedView forums where you can get help and the maintainers seem to stay on top of the forums and answer quickly.
Sorry to hear you aren't happy with PhpGedView. I like it a lot and find it extremely powerful. There is a bit of a learning curve, but that is generally true for programs that do a lot. With the PhpGedView/Google map integration, I've got Google maps showing all the places where my ancestors lived. It's very cool.
There is a bug in the map users function that I'm still digging into. And no, you don't need to manually add users to both. It should add any user that uses it automatically when they first try to use the interface, so none of your Drupal users will show up as PhpGedView users until that happens.
As I mentioned above, the PhpGedView issue queue would be the best place to follow up further on any problems using the program (or support questions or whatever).
Also, on the project page (http://drupal.org/project/phpgedview) there is a link to a demonstration which is actually my own family tree, where you can see all the kinds of reports and options that are available.
Need Help with Drupal & Phpgedview
This is my first time posting here so I hope it is ok to post here. If not sorry.
I have been using phpgedview for about a year. I'm very new Drupal but have it working.
First this is what I have Drupal 5.0 RC1 works great. Phpgedview 4.1 beta2 Works great. And I am using the phpgedview module 5.x-1.0. Works good.
Here is what I cant get to work in step 5 in the install.txt for the phpgedview module it says to open config.php in the phpgedview root folder for you family tree and add this "/drupal/user/login"; to this line $LOGIN_URL = so it would look like this $LOGIN_URL = "/drupal/user/login";.
Ok so I have done this but then when I login to the family tree within Drupal I get page not found. So I played around with it a little but still cant get it to work. The family tree will show up and everything works good but the login will not take me to the Drupal login.
I guess all I would need to know is in drupal where do I find the link for the user/login that I would need to put in this line $LOGIN_URL = "/drupal/user/login"; ?? If anyone could help me to what I should put in that line?
Great job Karen for this module.
'drupal' in the login needs
'drupal' in the login needs to match the directory where you have your Drupal installation. If you get to Drupal by going to 'http://www.example.com/', then you need to change that to '/user/login'. If you get to Drupal by going to 'http://www.example.com/home/' then you would change it to '/home/user/login'. Just make it match your installation. You can also check by going to 'My Account' in Drupal to see how your user link looks, then put 'login' where you see your user id -- change '/user/1' to '/user/login'.
phpgedview development may stop
It looks like KarenS could use some help with the code. Take a look at this post http://drupal.org/node/173437
Is their anybody able to help us all out with this. It would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Patrick
Genmod Module Project
Started new project.
Developers are welcome.
http://drupal.org/project/genmod