[Ldsoss] Recommendations for family history site tools

[Mary Shaw]

A good open source PHP CMS is Mambo.
http://www.mamboserver.com/

It's worth looking into.  It was recommended to me by a colleague.  I set it
up a couple of years ago and remember it was quite simple to set up & use,
though I didn't keep the site for more than a couple of months for other
reasons.  I'm not really a php guru, either, though I'm pretty versatile
when it comes to programming.

Mary


On 10/28/06, Shawn Willden <shawn-ldsoss at willden.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:29, RedBugz Software wrote:
> > The PHPGedView and Gallery2 integrations went pretty well, and they
> > synchronize the users and login so it's all controlled by the Drupal
> > logins.
>
> That's a very nice feature.  I have a gallery2 install, but I was planning
> on
> keeping it completely separate from the family history web site.  the FH
> site
> will have images, but they'll all be old photos attached to people.  The
> gallery is strictly for my more immediate family.  Linking the PHPGedView
> logins and the CMS logins, however, would be very nice.
>
> > There are some visual quirks with PHPGedView, but most of it
> > works great, and I hope those are easy to fix. The PHPGedView Drupal
> > plugin docs are a bit sparse, and there are a few things about login I
> > haven't figured out how to do yet. TNG is an alternative to PHPGedView
> > and offers integration into several CMSes.
>
> Do you know if either TNG or PHPGedView allow you to export a GEDCOM?  I
> can't
> find that in their feature lists.  On-line editing is nice, but only if we
> can get a GEDCOM back out... (geneweb provides that).
>
> > CiviCRM is more than we need, but it seems to be the nicest/easiest
> > way to get rich contact information for the family members, and has
> > nice groups and tags support and some mapping capabilities. Another
> > solution we're looking at is called the CCK, but we haven't done much
> > with that yet.
>
> I'll look into that.
>
> > Drupal does require some hands-on work. It's very flexible and looks
> > like it will be the best to add some custom functionality we want to
> > add later, but does have a bit of a learning curve, especially with
> > terminology (nodes and other abstract terms). The Drupal forums are
> > active and there seem to be many helpful people.
>
> What sort of work are you having to put into it?  So far it's looking like
> I
> wouldn't have to do any coding with Plone -- though I don't think I'll get
> user account integration if I go that way.
>
> > I spent many many hours searching for somewhere I could host a decent
> > family website at a reasonable price with a minimum of my own effort,
> > and I couldn't find anything. Almost everything I found to be horrible
> > looking or extremely expensive, most of them were both, and very few
> > offered the features we most wanted (GEDCOM support, photo galleries,
> > calendar, blogs, forums, address book). I'll be glad to share our
> > research if someone is interested.
>
> As I mentioned in my first post, I've ended up getting a full linux
> virtual
> server, so I can do whatever I need.  It's not cheap ($29/mo), but not too
> bad, either.  So far I've gotten enough in contributions from the family
> to
> cover the first couple of years, and there are a handful of family members
> who've committed to shaking down the rest on an as-needed basis ;-)
>
> Thanks for the ideas and information,
>
>        Shawn.
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