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Great and amazing software! I am anxious to be able to contribute in a meaningful way to development or documentation.
I can't find how to change the Contact e-mail and the Contact link label used in print_contact_links() called by footer.html.
Is/are there a configuration file that isn't available from the interface where I am supposed to be changing certain variables like this?
I would really like to help develop and write documentation, but I am having a hard time figuring all this out. Can you answer a php question? How is print_contact_links() made available in footer.html? And where is print_contact_links() defined? If I knew that, maybe I could find out where the email is coming from.
As was previously discussed between rbur and yalnifj, the email is a bit troublesome. I am having trouble with my spam filter because of the From address phpGedView is putting on user correspondence. For me it would work much better to have the authentication e-mails return addressed some constant value, like webmaster at blah blah blah. I don't think this is currently a global variable, but I would really like to change it. Sorry I don't know php yet. All my user authentication e-mails are getting caught as new unknown addresses by my spam filter.
If you login as the admin user and manage gedcoms under the admin menu. Then edit the gedcom there is a configuration form that will allow you to change the email addresses.
The function print_contact_links is in functions_print.php.
Thank you, eden99_99. That is great. I didn't realize it was by GEDCOM.
Now, is there a way to change the From: address in the administrative e-mails phpGedView sends out (particularly at registration time)? I am willing to change the php files if I can find where this is done. I tried to use GREP to find where it is being done, but I couldn't get GREP to give me only a few CONTEXT lines. It only gave me the full file. I wish I could just grep that From: php string and get a listing of the locations it is being used.
Related to this, what is the feeling of the developers about adding options in a config file that are not all in the interface? For speedy implementation, is it desirable to create several variables as they are asked for and just move them into config.php for power-user edits?
Hope this all makes sense. My immediate goal is to have my registration mails sent "From:" the server to the administrators.