After taring and upping the gedcom file.....

[Murphy Kling]

Ok, so i'm kinda an beginner at php. I have a fresh install of phpnuke 6 on my hosts server that works. I was able to TAR the PhpGedView-1.22.tar file with Putty under my mainwebsite_html folder. I uploaded my gedcom file (from FTW) into the PhpGedView folder. I edited the config.php file (the one under the PHPGedView folder, not the main one).

What happens next? Am I suppose to just go to my home page and suddenly something is different, because it's not. Am I suppose to navigate to the index.php file at http://mydomain.com/phpgedview/index.php ? That gives me PAGE NOT FOUND.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Murph

[John Finlay]

PhpGedView doesn't automatically work with phpnuke.  There have been afew people who have gotten it to work under a phpnuke environment.  Most people run it outside of the phpnuke environment.

You will want to navigate to the phpgedview folder.  Remember that linux/unix is case sensitive.  So you might need to go to http://mydomain.com/PhpGedView/

or rename the folder to phpgedview.

--John

[Murphy Kling]

One other thing I don't understand is this....
If this is the MySQL version, why don't I see a *.sql file anywhere?

Thanks for the help you are giving me John, I really like what I have seen of the program.

[Murphy Kling]

DUDE!!!

you were right about the case sensitive directory name. The only other thing I had to do was change the directory permissions.

Thanks!!!!

Murphy

[John Finlay]

Did you download the standard version or the mysql version?

The standard version comes packaged under the name "PhpGedView-1.22.tar.gz" the mysql version is packaged under the name "PhpGedView-1.22-MySQL.tar.gz"

This is one of the problems with the way that sourceforge sets up their download files page.  All of the files are in a big list and you have to scroll down to the MySQL section.

I was under the impression that you were using the standard version.  If you want to use the MySQL version then you will need to point to http://mydomain.com/PhpGedView/importgedcom.php first.  This file will import your gedcom and automatically create the tables it needs for you.

--John

[Murphy Kling]

Ike's!!

you are right. I didn't scroll all the way down and get the right file. Will do tonight.

What would be the advantage of using one or the other?

[John Finlay]

It depends on the size of your gedcom.  In general the MySQL version is faster, but only noticably faster on gedcoms over 500Kb in size.  And you really don't start to see a dramatic improvement until your gedcom gets to be more than 2Mb.

The other difference, is that the MySQL version supports importing more than one gedcom.  So if you want to use the same search engine on multiple gedcom datasets then the MySQL version will let you do that. 

Otherwise they work exactly the same.

--John

[Murphy Kling]

one more thing, I think....

I would like to keep some of the info on the gecom private. I know about the living person issue, which is cool, but is there a way to prevent the SSN from being viewable, without having to create a new gedcom file with out the social security numbers?

Thanks
Murphy

[John Finlay]

There is a way to do this:

Edit the individual.php file and find the $nonfacts array section.  Modify that array to include the SSN tag and any other tags that you don't want displayed like this:

$nonfacts[4] = "SSN";
$nonfacts[5] = "";

That should do it for you.

--John

[John Finlay]

You will also want to turn off the setting in the config.php file that lets you view the whole gedcom record.  Set
$SHOW_GEDCOM_RECORD = false;

[Murphy Kling]

Warning: file("http://www.theklings.net/phpGedView/klingfam.ged") - Success in /home/virtual/site156/fst/var/www/html/phpGedView/functions.php on line 595

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /home/virtual/site156/fst/var/www/html/phpGedView/functions.php on line 596
Flushing contents

What do the above errors mean?

[Murphy Kling]

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