what's the status of PhpGedView?
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Just wondering if this is still under development. My concern is about security.
@lesuarez
Prefer to ask than read the forum threads? There is no lead developer nor any serious code being added to the project at this time, nor has then been anything but a couple of minor tweaks and one serious bug squashed in almost three years. The software is not prepared to stay abreast of current PHP and SQL versions. There are a couple of innovators who may well fork off to continue the concept of the project but under different SQL bases, but that's not really PGV as it is now.
webtrees forked, along with the lead developer at the time, from PGV about 3 years ago and is under active development. The current release, 1.4.3 is the last to support PHP v5.2 and future versions (v1.5+) will need at least PHP v5.3 and work even better with 5.5 or 5.6 and it may also require more up-to-date MySQL. View this information at http://www.webtrees.net
lesuarez
I'm one of the people maintaining my own port of PGV running on Firebird rather than MySQL but lack of time prevents my backporting changes to the PGV codebase. The webtrees fork is not compatible which what I am doing so I'm not going to be going down that particular path, but I do hope to release a clean build of the PGV codebase in the next few months. My own code can be found on http://lsces.org.uk/hg/ which I tidied up a few weeks back. I'm just trying to get phpdocumentor working again so I can produce a clean API document to progress to the next stage.
canajun2eh has been tidying up a few simple problems over the last few years and it is probably worth pushing a clean installation pack based on the current code up to the SF server as this is the only real problem currently.
There are problems with the SourceForge repository too.
When you access the SVN repository and request a download of the repository snapshot, nothing happens, no matter how long you wait.
This problem was reported to SourceForge over 5 months ago, was confirmed, and was actually assigned to a SourceForge developer. There have been no communications from the developer since the original "I'm now assigned to this" e-mail. This is not encouraging.
Path to the repository:
1. click on "SVN" at the top of this page
2. click on "Trunk"
3. click on "phpGedView"
4. click on "Download Snapshot"
Hi Gerry,
I am having no problem pulling from the repository via svn now. So what's in "trunk" is v4.3? Just to clarify.
Thx.
Yes.
There is a lot of other junk in the snapshot. You want the contents of the directory "phpGedView". Discard everything else.
The problem with the previous attempts at creating snapshots was that some of the file names contained special characters. The SourceForge software couldn't handle anything other than plain ASCII file names. This limitation is now a recognized SourceForge bug.
As a work-around, I deleted the files with Hebrew characters in directory "places/ISR", and removed accents from file names in the "images/flags" and "places/FRA/flags" directories.
Until I have a chance to rewrite the contents of the Help topic whose title begins with "Repost: Download ...", use the upgrade instructions in that post, but do the download and discard as mentioned above.
My own mirror is on rather a slow pipe, but I've a second machine going over to Sheffield soon which has all of this cloned and I'll be able to provide a much faster mirror then. I'm running Hg here for code management and it provides some useful tools for creating snapshots from the various sources such as git, svn and even cvs ...
Thanks for your responses. I have tried webtrees in my local machine and seems to be okay, so will try it on my server.
Thanks again.