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problems with phpGedView
« on: Saturday 15 October 05 18:48 BST (UK) »
I am having real problems

It is so irrational.  I upload pictures, some can be displayed others are shown as not found. All have the same permissions.

Indexes and some of the maths are definely iffy
My grandfather was born 1897 and died in 1966 but his age at death is given as 77

If I add my daughter and my son I find that I have two daughters and two sons.  Delete one of either and they all disapppear.

Support is abysmal.  It may as well be written in Klingon

Eric

Is there some proper software that I can use instead of this nightmare.  And how can I get rid of phpgedview.
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Re: problems with phpGedView
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 15 October 05 19:42 BST (UK) »
Hi Eric,

I can understand people being astonished, in a negative sense, by the "gas plant" named phpGedView. I happen to know the PHP language very well. I took one look at phpGedView and ran! It is based upon the approach (widespread among computing perfectionists) that, since something is effectively do-able, it should be done. Nobody with a minimum of old-fashioned common-sense would dream of using PHP scripts to view gedcoms in an Internet context. It's utterly ridiculous. Besides, all the phpGedView stuff I've seen is really ugly to look at. That nasty product goes against the grain of everything I believe above user-friendliness in personal computing.

For handling gedcoms, the nicest piece of software you could possibly imagine is GEDitCOM. But you need a Macintosh (even an old one like mine, which costs practically nothing today) to run it.

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