Forums / General / Combining Genealogy program with Exponential?
Terje J. Hanssen
Monday 04 April 2005 5:26:45 pm
I wonder if someone has experience with using Exponential for genealogy applications?
Actually, I think of the possibility to combine "TNG" (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) with Exponential. My project idea is to build a genealogy database with TNG/MySQL with GEDCOM import. This may next be used ot generate reports for an "eBook" authored and published with Exponential.
The interesting thing here is that TNG looks to be based on the same LAMP-platform as Exponential, and both generate dynamic web pages. The following links are meant as related information (not spam!): http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/06/the_next_genera.html http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/demo.php A couple of examples, Norwegian sites using TNG: http://hemneslekt.net/http://indregaard.net/
Constructive comments and suggestions are welcome,
Bård Farstad
Wednesday 20 April 2005 2:41:04 am
Terje, this sounds like an exciting project. I think Exponential will fit well with your needs. It's easy to build hierarchies and relations with Exponential.
Would be nice to get information about the project once you start progressing with it.
--bård
Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Thursday 21 April 2005 2:12:16 am
Bård,
While the TNG license is "almost" free ($27), PhpGedView is another genealogy program that is GPL licensed. PhpGedView is similar web oriented and can typical run on LAMP or WAMP servers:http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/
There is also similar developed module files to integrate phpGedView with PostNuke.http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/modules.php
It is similar wishible to run these programs as modules under Exponential, without the need to login extra to the genealogy programs.
Is there some kind of documentation and command examples for Exponential how to do this?
Thursday 21 April 2005 3:41:04 am
Terje,
there is information about how to write a module and how to connect to the user information in Exponential (login handlers). There is both a tutorial on how to write a module and information on how you can write your own login handler.
You can find this under the Exponential documentation.