Online Tech

I changed TNG so that I can write out text that’s intended to introduce the person or family. I use event type ‘Introduction’, and type the text into that event’s notes.
I edited the style sheet to add class .introduction.
I edited getperson.php to catch and display the event.
I edited personlib.php to add function buildIntroduction, which is […]

TNG chokes on a family where the parents are unknown and unknown, RID of 0 and 0. mkdesc.pl reports the problem, so clean it up and re-import the gedcom file into TNG.

It’s pretty easy to add a new function. I added desc_toc.php, and linked it in index.php and topmenu.html. To be done properly, I should have added the menu text to English/text.php.
In this case I’m simply including an html page which will be generated by an outside perl script. I miss the ability to generate a […]

In TNG, you can browse the ‘photos’ subfolder on the server, to pick up the photo and thumbnail of interest. A symbolic link to the coppermine/albums folder works nicely. When the time comes, a symlink to the albums/genealogy/headstones folder should work for headstones.
The result is that the original import into the coppermine gallery creates the […]