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Category:Version Features

2009-02-04T02:54:46Z

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This category lists [[PhpGedView]] features by version.

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Features

2009-02-04T02:47:37Z

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Feature Requests

2009-02-04T02:29:33Z

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Below are a list of things that people would like to see in [[PhpGedView]].

'''Note that official feature requests should be filed in the [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=477082&group_id=55456&func=browse SourceForge Feature Requests Tracker].'''

# Image Face recognition
# Merging of Gedcom Files
# Ancestry Determination via Google and or other methods.
# RSS feeds for all of the pages as well as text only views of any page. For printing, blind users, government mandated 501c accessibility laws and simple mobile web browsers. The RSS urls can be good for the images galleries to send to a wifi device such as a picture frame that rotates through images, videos, music and voice recordings.
# A downloadable Java Jar url for the admin/editors to be used within Mobile phones in their games folder. Like Gmail.jar or google maps jar that you can download and use on your mobile internet accessible phones.
# Calendar Export to mac and outlook and yahoo for synching to mobile phones etc. The format for this export would be in the iCalendar format. The basic framework for generating valid iCal files is in place in ical.php in SVN but no work has really been done to wire this in.
# Automatic generation of vCards (business cards, recognized for import by outlook and other devices) for each person in your tree with unique urls
# SMS- to send images to a given URL.
# more wifi device interactivity via bluetooth or otherwise.
# Much more optional information about each person such as their address history i.e. live at this address from this date to this date. History of their education, jobs, medical. E.g. How many diabetics in this tree node versus another .. Uploadable files to each person such as their resumes etc, favorite music, home videos, voice recordings of grandparents etc... meaning many doc types
# Multiple contact type such as emails and phone numbers; work, mobile, home, GM onStar car # etc..
# An email list program like [http://www.phplist.com/ PHPList] integrated into the portal.
# Subscribe to birthdays and anniversary notifications so that you can send greetings either a week ahead or on the anniversary.
# Most cool programs these days allow a user/admin to create in the UI custom fields (to existing web pages or newly created ones by them) i.e. new fields of all the form objects, new "views/screens" (basically web pages, popup and regular) and workflows (grouping of web pages) that can be included with the current program for greater user customization. I think adding that bit would solve a lot of the above.
# Face Recognition and other modern highly advanced tools in such products as http://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder
# Are there any current or future plans to add any more features such as those at the site above or any others, as in the Facebook API.
# I was thinking of a genealogy search. In other words. if I have a family A and I want to know all publicly known names and my complete ancestry that is available, there are free tools out there that we can use or tie in with to enable this product to get me my past ancestry and then use other tools to validate it or not. Say you discover my past family tree or living and then allow me to edit which is more or less likely to be in fact true via face recognition software, white pages (call them up) to get their address, full names, phone numbers etc...
# Is there a merge capability for gedcom import with proper merging not overwriting?
# This site has some basic (probably outdated) ways in which to use Google to find ancestors: http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html
# Export feature - With FTM V2009 there are limitations on exporting, but you can export the entire tree. It has been better then previous versions but not quite good enough. When your tree has several thousand individuals, you want to export from a certain individual all the ancestors. Here are some export features:
#* entire tree
#* selected individuals
#** Filter by and fields (contains, does not contain, is blank, is not blank with a value )
#** ancestors
#*** include all parents (and preferred parents only)
#*** # of generations
#*** include spouses (and preferred spouses only)
#*** include ancestors descendants (up to # of generations of descendants)
#*** need ALL option
# Charts:
#*All-in-One

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2009-02-01T17:32:02Z

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PhpGedView v4.1.7

2009-02-01T17:31:10Z

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'''PhpGedView v4.1.7''' was released on [[31 January]], [[2009]].

The 4.1.7 release consists of [[4.1.6]] plus a small number of critical updates.

From release [[4.2]], PhpGedView requires PHP5 in order to run.

This release exists to maintain compatibility with PHP4 for anyone who cannot upgrade their web server. It will not be maintained, other than for major security problems and PHP4 compatibility issues.

== Features ==

{{main|Features v4.1.x}}

== Internal Links ==

* [[Download v4.1.x|Download Page]]
* [[Installation Guide v4.1.x|Installation Guide]]
* [[Administrators Guide v4.1.x|Administrators Guide]]
* [[Users Guide|Users Guide]]


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User:Mnoorenberghe

2009-01-31T20:26:57Z

Mnoorenberghe:

'''Running [[PhpGedView v4.2]]'''

'''Site:''' [http://www.noorenberghe.com Noorenberghe Family]

{{User en}}

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4.1.7

2009-01-31T20:14:28Z

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PhpGedView v4.2.0

2009-01-31T19:54:19Z

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'''PhpGedView v4.2.0''' was released on [[31 January]], [[2009]].

Note that PhpGedView 4.2 now requires [[w:PHP|PHP]] 5.2.0 or later in order to run. Please ensure your server has a suitable version of PHP before upgrading. If you don't know your version, you can find it out from the phpinfo link on PGV's admin page.

== Features ==

{{main|Features v4.2.x}}
:[http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=657505&group_id=55456 Full Release Notes]

== Internal Links ==

* [[Download v4.2.x|Download Page]]
* [[Installation Guide v4.2.x|Installation Guide]]


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Template:License

2009-01-31T19:40:18Z

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'''PhpGedView: Genealogy Viewer'''

Copyright (C) 2002 to 2009 PGV Development Team. All rights reserved.

This program is [[w:free software|free software]]; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the [[w:GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License]] as published by the [[w:Free Software Foundation|Free Software Foundation]]; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the [[w:GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License]] for more details.

See the file GPL.txt included with this software for more detailed licensing information.

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PhpGedView v4.2

2009-01-31T19:19:49Z

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PhpGedView v4.1.6

2009-01-31T18:54:02Z

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'''PhpGedView v4.1.6''' was released on [[16 November]], [[2008]].

== Features ==

{{main|Features v4.1.x}}

== Internal Links ==

* [[Download v4.1.x|Download Page]]
* [[Installation Guide v4.1.x|Installation Guide]]
* [[Administrators Guide v4.1.x|Administrators Guide]]
* [[Users Guide|Users Guide]]


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4.2

2009-01-31T18:50:02Z

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2008

2009-01-31T18:48:12Z

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'''2008''' ('''[[w:Roman numerals|MMVIII]]''') was a [[w:leap year|leap year]] that [[w:Leap year starting on Tuesday|started on Tuesday]] of the [[w:Anno Domini|Anno Domini]] (or [[w:common era|common era]]), in accordance to the [[w:Gregorian calendar|Gregorian calendar]].

== Events ==

=== April ===
* [[4 April]] - [[PhpGedView v4.1.4]] released
* [[27 April]] - [[PhpGedView v4.1.5]] released
* [[16 November]] - [[PhpGedView v4.1.6]] was released.

[[Category:Years]]

4.2.0

2009-01-31T18:41:48Z

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Template:Latest stable series

2009-01-31T18:36:54Z

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Languages

2008-08-07T03:28:43Z

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PhpGedView has built-in support for multiple languages.

==Language configuration tools==
You will find the tools for managing languages in the admin menu:
*'''[[Add files and settings for a new language|Add files and settings for a new language]]'''
*'''[[Configure supported Languages|Configure supported languages]]'''
*'''[[Translator tools|Translator tools]]'''
:*''Byte Order Mark (BOM) check''
:*''Help Text Debug Option''
:*''Language File Edit Utility''
:*''Language File Export Utility''
:*''Language File Comparison Utility''
:*''[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=294245 PhpGedView Translations forum on SourceForge]''

==Language encoding==
PHP supports UTF-8 Unicode encoding and that is the recommended character encoding for GEDCOMs with PhpGedView. PHP does not support UTF-16 encoding. If you have characters in your GEDCOM outside the standard ASCII alphabet, you should probably use the UTF-8 encoding. There are many differences between UTF-8 and UTF-16, but anything that you can encode in UTF-16 you should be able to encode in UTF-8. It is also quite easy to convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8. Simply open your Unicode GEDCOM file in Windows Notepad and select "File->Save As.." from the menu and choose UTF-8 as the encoding option. You shouldn't lose any of the characters in the translation. Read more on UTF-8, UTF-16 and other Unicode encodings in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Wikipedia article on Unicode]

==Editing language files==

Note: Make this a separate article

Note: If you want to use the language editing features you will need to set Write permissions for all of the files in the "languages" folder.

Discussion and questions about the multiple language features of PhpGedView, including translations, should be posted in the Translations forum available from the PhpGedView project page here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=294245

To translate PhpGedView into another language that is not currently supported you must first login to PhpGedView as an administrator and go to the Language Edit Utility by clicking on "Admin-> Translator Tools". At the bottom of that page is an option to Add a new language. Choose your language from the dropdown list and click on the "Add new Language" button.

A popup window will appear that allows you to edit the default settings for your language. Each of the settings has online help available by clicking on the "?". You might want to look at the settings for some of the other languages on the edit language page to see how they are set up.

When you have finished editing the settings, click the Save button. This will create a new lang_settings.php file in the index directory. You will notice that your language now appears in the supported languages list.

Next create a copy of the "configure_help.en.php", "facts.en.php", "help_text.en.php", and "lang.en.php" files located in the "languages" folder and change the "en" part to match the two letter language code of your language.

The "facts" file contains all of the translations for the various GEDCOM tags such as BIRT = Birth. The "lang" file contains all of the language variables used throughout the site. The "configure_help.en.php" and "help_text.en.php" provide configuration and help instructions.

You can translate these files using the online Language File Edit utility. Just select your language from the drop-down list and then select the file you want to edit and click the Edit button. Your file will be compared to the English language file so that you can easily translate the files online.

You can also translate these files manually by opening them in any text editor. If you manually edit the files, you must be sure to save them in the UTF-8 character set. Some text editors like Windows Notepad add a 3-byte Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) to files they save in UTF-8. PHP does not like the BOM and it should be removed before testing the files in PhpGedView. PhpGedView's Translator Tools section has a utility program
to remove these BOMs.

You should obtain a flag file from http://w3f.com/gifs/index.html and size it to match the other flags in the images/flags directory.

To help maintain languages, a language change log is provided in the languages directory. This change log is named LANG_CHANGELOG.txt. All changes to the English language files are recorded here.

If you make a new translation of PhpGedView or update another translation, and would like to contribute it to the community please post your language files and your index/lang_settings.php file to the Patches section of the SourceForge project site at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/

The list of language files:

{{Language Files}}

==Language extensions==

Language extension files are custom PHP files that you can use to make your own language specific extensions to PhpGedView. To add a language file extension, create a new PHP file called lang.xx.extra.php [extra.xx.php for versions of PGV after 4.0] replacing the "xx" with the code for the language you want to extend. These files are not automatically included with the package so that when you upgrade, your extensions are not overwritten.

If this file exists for the language that is chosen, it is the very last thing that is loaded before the display starts. These files were designed to be language file extensions, but you could easily use them to make settings changes based on the chosen language.

What sort of things can you do with language extensions?
- Customize any of the text that appears on the site,
- Change configuration options based on language,
- Change to a different GEDCOM when someone views your site in a different language.

The only settings that you should not override in this file are the Privacy settings.

If, for example, you wanted to change the GEDCOM title when you changed the language, you could change the title for each language by adding the following line to your lang.xx.extra.php:
$GEDCOMS["surname.ged"]["title"] = "Title in Chinese";

In this file you could also change the text on the buttons:
$pgv_lang["view"]="Show";

With this file you could also change the GEDCOM that is displayed when the language is selected. Suppose you had a GEDCOM that was in German and one that was in English. In the lang.de.extra.php file you could add the following lines:
if ($GEDCOM=="english.ged") {
header("Location: $SCRIPT_NAME?$QUERY_STRING&ged=german.ged");
exit;
}

These lines say that if we are using the German language files, but are using the English GEDCOM, then we need to reload the page with the German GEDCOM. You need to reload the page so that the configuration settings for the GEDCOM get loaded. This assumes that you have both "english.ged" and "german.ged" imported into the database and that the english.ged and the german.ged have the same people in them, just in a different language.

Thus I0001 in english.ged should refer to the same I0001 in german.ged.

[[Category:PhpGedView|Languages]]

Category:FAQ

2007-12-24T18:38:47Z

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This category is intended for articles that deal with Frequently asked questions (FAQ's).

[[Category:FAQ]]