PHP driven genealogy site? (preferably using CMSB)

Not CMSB but http://www.tngsitebuilding.com/ has been around for a long time and is fully php (no encoding).

Thanks Larry,

Looks like TNG has interesting possibilities, especially in the graphical areas.

I'll look it over in the next few days. I'm sure I'll have some questions.

Thanks again for caring enough to answer this

Jerry Kornbluth

I keep flitting in and out of doing family history stuff, Darrin is a very helpful chap and the software is really nice, now if I was only on broadband it would be purrfect ;-)

Hi Jerry,

If you wanted to use CMS Builder, what about using a category system to create the tree structure? You could have the children of each relative as sub categories. You could have a drop down for each relative that would allow you to select how they entered the family (a child of another relative or through marriage). This would also allow you to change the structure of the tree easily as you moved relatives around and new members were added.

You could then use an html list to display the data in a collapsible menu on the front end of the site, or you could use a canvas or SVG system to create an actual tree structure. 

Cheers

Greg

Thanks Greg,

I think I can get the best of both worlds to work and play well together, but want to take a closer look at TNG before making any decisions.

I'm guessing that TNG has done a lot of the detailed heavy lifting already, and I'm going to try using as much of it as I can.

I'll post my progress (or lack thereof) here.

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Larry,

Have you ever encountered this error after installing TNG on a site that also has CMSB installed?

It occurs on all pages including the Admin page.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /hsphere/local/home/a887307/pollick.net/cmsAdmin/lib/field_class.php on line 7

(I also posted a new thread on the forum a few minutes ago)

Jerry Kornbluth

Mine is running under Wordpress .. I am a long way from resurrecting JLogica my current project takes most of my time.

Assuming you have it installed under a different directory can't see why it would bork though .. send me an email with url and ftp (et al) access and I will have a gander my name at jenolan dot org

Hi Larry,

Thanks for the offer.

Based on all the testing and re-uploading of files that I've done, I have a feeling that this is database related and that something got corrupted totally separate from TNG

I hope that one of the Gurus at IT, or someone else sees these posts and has an approach, short of doing a clean install, rebuilding the tables from the php.ini files and then restoring an older database  backup.

Until then, I'll continue to muck around and will contact you again.

Jerry Kornbluth