A good open source PHP CMS is Mambo.
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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