phpGedView template workarounds...

[Lee Moore]

I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to the fact that so much
XHTML code is hardcoded into the php. (I realise phpGedView as 'themes'
but they have to adhere to their own hardcoded 'template'.)

I wonder if it's possible to leave phpGedView in a subdirectory for
admin/maintenance reasons, and just have your own completely separated
website call functions as and when desired. Ie. somebody presses
'pedigree', and my website calls the function which returns the pedigree
code alone and *not* the whole phpGedView formatted pedigree page.

Did that make sense? If it's not possible, I don't want to waste a few
hours figuring out that I can't do it, IYSWIM.
--
Lee Moore

[Lee Moore]

Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...

Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.

--
Lee Moore

[singhals]

Lee Moore wrote:

Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...


Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.

Darn if I knew Paramount was selling it!

Cheryl

[Lee Moore]

Hey singhals, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

Lee Moore wrote:

Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...


Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.


Darn if I knew Paramount was selling it!

LOL! It took a while, but I got there in the end.

--
Lee Moore

[Lee Moore]

Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...
I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...

Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.

Well that was a mistake that left me £15 out of pocket. Is there *any*
decent PHP/MySQL family tree software out there whose output *validates*
(W3C), which has intuitive CSS templates for complete customization and
whose code is fully checked for syntax errors before releases are
declared final?

No amount of cash will apparently get me this product.
--
Lee J. Moore

[Thanatos]

Hi

"Lee Moore" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...
Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...
I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...

Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.

Well that was a mistake that left me £15 out of pocket. Is there *any*
decent PHP/MySQL family tree software out there whose output *validates*
(W3C), which has intuitive CSS templates for complete customization and
whose code is fully checked for syntax errors before releases are
declared final?

Gen-Ged ?

[Lee Moore]

Hey Thanatos, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

Hi

"Lee Moore" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...
Hey Lee, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...
I've been playing around with phpGedView the past few days, and although
it has the functionality I require, it seems that creating your own
unique template is well nigh difficult due to ....blah blah snip
snip...

Ah, I found the solution: Buy TNG instead.

Well that was a mistake that left me £15 out of pocket. Is there *any*
decent PHP/MySQL family tree software out there whose output *validates*
(W3C), which has intuitive CSS templates for complete customization and
whose code is fully checked for syntax errors before releases are
declared final?

Gen-Ged ?

Drat and double-drat. I cancelled that message because the TNG author
helped me out by offering to send a W3C compliant mod of the latest
release. Given the validation issue was the only one relevant to TNG, I
feel a bit of a tw[a|i]t now - moreso because the author's so helpful
and accomodating. And the other two criticisms were actually phpGedView
specific.

Hmmm, GenGed looks interesting....I wonder why I haven't seen that
before.

--
Lee J. Moore

[singhals]

Lee Moore wrote:

helped me out by offering to send a W3C compliant mod of the latest
release. Given the validation issue was the only one relevant to TNG, I

OK, you ignored subtle, so lemme ask straight-out: what the heck does
TNG stand for?

Cheryl

[Paul Blair]

singhals wrote:

Lee Moore wrote:


helped me out by offering to send a W3C compliant mod of the latest
release. Given the validation issue was the only one relevant to TNG, I


OK, you ignored subtle, so lemme ask straight-out: what the heck does
TNG stand for?

Cheryl

Go to http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php

Paul

[Lee Moore]

Hey singhals, you rambled in soc.genealogy.computing like so...

Lee Moore wrote:

helped me out by offering to send a W3C compliant mod of the latest
release. Given the validation issue was the only one relevant to
TNG, I

OK, you ignored subtle, so lemme ask straight-out: what the heck does
TNG stand for?

Oops. I wasn't ignoring. Just in cuckoo-land - where we inhabitants
miss all kinds of subtlety. It's a genealogy site-building tool that
allows you to manage and display all kinds of family history data
online. IMO, it's the best available and well worth the £15 (no matter
how I moaned elsewhere in this thread) and it beats coding your own from
scratch. phpGedView is probably the next best available, but I found it
a little too buggy (I was surprised to find syntax errors in final
release code) and it required too much hardcoding if you wanted a page
layout dramatically different to the default.

--
Lee J. Moore