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The Living Color mod stopped working on both of my sites. This is the full readout: line 24: %target getperson.php verified line 26: %location #1 %insert:after not installed line 42: %location #2 %insert:after not installed line 53: %location #3 %insert:after not installed line 67: %location #4 %insert:after not installed line 81: %location #5 v486 %insert:after Bad target line 94: %location #6 %insert:after not installed line 104: %location #7 %trimreplace not installed line 111: %target css/genstyle.css verified line 112: %location #1 %insert:after not installed line 140: %newfile js/popup_2.js not created line 235: %copyfile: familyprevlib101.php not copied Derrick

After some discussion on the Sources and their significance I decided to develop a Mod that makes the changes considered there. If you have any comments regarding this Mod, feel free to share them in this thread.

I've been doing genealogy research for approximatly 15 years now, which is compared to others, not very long and I've seen a lot of websites that present genealogical data. Sites like MyHeritage, FamilySearch and many of the websites created by the TNG users to name a few. Question is "How reliable is the data they provide?" I would start by saying "Unreliable" and I will explain why this is my opinion and why it should probably be yours too to start with. As an example: Person A: Builds his family tree on the correct facts, but does not mention any of it in his software (he keeps everything in binders or as screenshots on his computer). Person B: Builds his family tree by making up all kinds of things, mentions some sources, but are neither correct nor complete. Person C: Builds his family tree based on facts from the right sources, and mentions them in the right way in his software program. It will be clear that Person C is doing it the correct way and Person B makes a mess of it. But Person A, on the other hand, may well have set up a credible family tree, but did not (correctly) mention the sources in the software. Conclusion: The value of citing sources, what is right and what is wrong, can only be determined if you learn which source you can and cannot trust. And even then, situations can be debatable. This means that whatever data we retrieve from whatever source should be qualified as unreliable unless proven otherwise. Therefore we should examine every piece of data for its quality and whether it is consistent with validated sources. This is something we need to do for ourselves and we cannot just rely on the work others did. All 'n all, to me data quality is more important than data quantity. In my opinion data can be qualified as: Primary source: Original materials created at the time of an event or study, such as diaries, photographs, or official documents, that provide direct evidence or firsthand accounts Secondary source: Any document that draws on one or more primary sources and interprets or analyses them; Also sources such as newspapers whose accuracy is open to question Unreliable source: any source that, at the moment, is not verifiable in any way shape or form Needs review: Any source that hasn't been reviewed yet and therefore doesn't fit in any of the three catogories mentioned above. TNG has an option to qualify the reliability of sources in the "Edit Existing Citation" popup window. You can qualify them with a number (0-3) where the higher number means higher reliability. This reliability score is shown in the sources block on the person page and familygroup page. To me the way TNG presents the reliability is insufficient. How many visitors of my website actualy know what "reliability: 2" means? My quess is none unless they're a TNG user themselves and even then... Just to be clear, the above is my personal opinion and doesn't have to be anyone elses. Taking the above into account, I have started developing a mod that indicates more clearly what the value of the source is to me. The name of the mod will be "Source Reliability" and I hope to publish it before the end of next week. See the screenshots to get a glimpse of what it will change. Any comments regarding the above are welcome and I hope this helps others

As promised earlier I can hereby announce the release of my very first mod Safe External Links - TNG_Wiki This TNG modification causes all TNG page external links to open in a new Window or Tab with the noopener attribute. The noopener attribute increases security by preventing third-party control of the browser tab. Hope you enjoy it.

I have released a new mod called What's New after Import. It is intended for admins who frequently import data from PC or Apple computers into TNG via GEDCOM files. This often results in the last modified” time in the TNG database for media, people, and families being equal to the import time, which makes this description less useful. In particular, in the “What's New” tab, the set of new items presented does not correspond to the purpose of this tab. This mod allows you to take into account the last edit time stored in the metadata of media files, rather than in their description in the database. In addition, individuals and families whose description indicates a change time close to the import time are filtered out. The use of this metadata or the description in the database can be switched on an ongoing basis by selecting the appropriate option. The menu also allows you to select the time (age) of the oldest changes to be taken into account and to limit the number of items displayed. The mod has several parameters. They allow you to redefine the list of values used in the age and number menus, the initial values of age and number, and the initial value of the change time source (metadata or database). During data processing, which for a large database may require up to several dozen seconds of server time, a header and spinner are immediately displayed so that a blank screen does not confuse the user. This is a small detail that requires forcing an incomplete page to be sent to the browser - which was a new experience for me. Feel free to try out the mod and post your comments and suggestions for improvement here. If anyone is interested in further details before trying out the mod, I will be happy to provide them. Michał Jarociński Edit: you can see the mod in action in my site: jarocinscy.pl/genealogy/whatsnew.php (the page is public).

I recently upgraded from TNG v14 to v15.0.3 on my local site using MAMP. All appears well except three of the v15 mods I use will not install. They are "Add Person Siblings Row", "Ancestor Map", and "Collapse Family Children". All three show that mod updates are required (see attachment). Is anyone else out there having similar problems with v15.0.3? Thanks for any help you can provide. Peter Weeks

For those interested. As of today there's a new mod available named Bot Manager It was created by @Steve1200 and adds an extra line of defense against abusive bots that create heavy traffic and slow down your website. This TNG mod was written to address unrestricted bot access and has options block all access, allow limited access or selective bot access and works with Google reCaptcha v2 or the Image Captcha mod.

Hi I'm still alive, and hopefully you are too! I'm using Relate-mod and I can see that there is still a small linguistic issue: If I select my grandfather, for example, I get the following in Danish: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er den bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’ In that sentence, the word ‘den’ is incorrect/superfluous. Instead, it should say: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’. My genealogy website is here: https://tng.stegemueller.dk/ PS Remember that I am always happy to help with translations of mods into Danish. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

@mkoche - tagging you since it's your mod and I tried tagging tngrlkrz since it looks like he helped but my tag isn't working for some reason. This mod was working well for me until tonight. I've added a 2nd tree, if that has any bearing on things. Normally when it runs, I get the donut and a short list of ancestors, and the matriarch and patriarch. I think that's what it's supposed to do. Now when I run it, no matter who I do it on, it gives me over 300 names. That's when it doesn't time out first. I always get the matriarch and patriarch, they're at the bottom. But it doesn't seem to be running on the person I've selected as some of the results are not ancestors of this person. I tried removing the donut. That worked but I still got the same long 300+ person list. Then I turned the donut back on and tried changing this option: Origins Chart 3. Remove details on the donut origin chart" - A 1 will remove details from the chart legend - chartplace names links to connected ancestors and the drop-down arrow that shows secondary places. Defaults to (0) I changed it to 1 and it changed it to a 10 (I don't think I put in 10...but maybe I did - would it accept it if I did?). Then my whole subdomain stopped working and every page was blank. I don't know if that's related but that's when it happened. I had to do a restore from a backup on my server (thankfully they did the last one only an hour before). Any ideas on what the problem might be? Jodi

After installing a Full v15 on a new PC (test site), I installed all MODs without issue. However, when I upgraded the live site from v14-v15, only the user footer copyright MOD generated an error: "Cannot install for TNG 15.0.0" The MOD Manager status column is copied below. I must have botched a step in the upgrade process. Is there a ready fix? Thank you. Regis www.CarrFamilyTree.com v15.0.1

TNG 15.0.2 PHP 8.4.8 MariaDB 11.4.7 watermark_v15.0.0.6.cfg Hello folks, I have a slight hiccup with Michel's @Michel KIRSCH Watermark mod v15.0.0.6, and I have no idea what is causing this problem. On my main page, I have a random photo section, with the image changing randomly every time the main page is accessed. The error that pops up sometimes (i.e. only every now & then), is: Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 20.5 to int loses precision in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 331 What's weird is, when that error appears for a picture, the next time that same picture is randomly displayed, there is no error associated with that picture. That mod is working perfectly on my 2 external TNG 15.0.2 sites (public live site & public test site), which are both currently using PHP 8.3.21 and MySQL 8.0.39-cll-lve under LiteSpeed (Apache) v2.4.63. That mod is also working perfectly on my local TNG 14.0.6 site, which is using PHP 8.4.8 and MariaDB 11.4.7 under Windows 10 Pro x64. The hiccup is only on my local TNG 15.0.2 test site, which is also using PHP 8.4.8 and MariaDB 11.4.7 under Windows 10 Pro x64. Thinking that it may be related to my PHP, I rolled my local TNG 15.0.2 test site back to PHP 8.2.5, but the problem was still there, so I don't believe that it's PHP-related. Plus, my local TNG 14.0.6 test site does not display this error at all, so it can't be PHP-related. It can't be related to MariaDB either, because it's the same DB that my local TNG 14.0.6 site uses, which does NOT produce that error message. And it can't be related to TNG, because my 2 external TNG 15.0.2 sites work fine & also do NOT produce that error message. And it also can't be related Windows versus LiteSpeed/Apache, because my local TNG 14.0.6 site also works fine & also does NOT produce that error message. Now, just before posting this, I got 2 more errors: Warning: imagecreatefromstring(): gd-png: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 260 Warning: imagecreatefromstring(): gd-png: libpng warning: iCCP: cHRM chunk does not match sRGB in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 260 Those 2 iCCP warnings popped up when TNG displayed a specific picture, which 99% of the time displays fine, but that same picture every now & then produces the Implicit conversion from float 20.5 to int loses precision warning, and now this one time the above 2 iCCP warnings. So those warnings are not consistent. Jan Wessel found the cause of this problem & posted about it & the fix HERE 7 years ago, so I can fix the latter 2 iCCP warnings, but those warnings are appearing sporadically. I'm going crazy (it doesn't take much ), and I'm running out of ideas as to what is causing these problem, and I am hoping that someone else can think of a possible cause. Thanks in advance. Regards, John

Hello, I am getting the attached error when I try to install this mod. I am using TNG 15.0.2. There are just these two errors. Thanks for any help— Derrick

I have two questions about these. First, when I import a transcript from Ancestry, the numbers of people do not populate the different categories. That's fine, and I add them myself. I just wanted to make sure that's the expected behavior. Second, these are two-page censuses. Do I add a second page, with the numbers of slaves, the same way that a second page would be added in later censuses if the family flowed over to a second page? And so, if I wanted to do that, should I use the manual import for the first page to be able to add the second page? I am using censusplus_15.0.2.14 b1, with TNG 15.0.2. Thanks - Derrick

Am I right in thinking that .txt files used from older imports, before Ancestry changed its format, cannot be used again now? Derrick

Today, I have uploaded Unused_media_v15.0.2.2 to the TNG Wiki. The changes are to update the style to match TNG v15 (new icons, larger form fields), and the ability to select an item for addition to TNG. I have tested it on my site, but feedback from other users would be useful. Thanks for any comments. Regards, Warren

TNG 15.0.2 browsemedia_medialinks_v15.0.0.0.cfg Hello, folks, This reworked browsemedia_medialinks_v15.0.0.0.cfg (thanks, Brett) installs fine on TNG 15.0.2, and shows that it is successfully installed, but it does not do what it is supposed to do on my TNG 15.0.2 site. On my old TNG 14.0.6 site, this is what this mod does on its browsemedia.php page, which is what it is supposed to do: However, on my TNG 15.0.2 site, this is what this mod does on its browsemedia.php page, which doesn't seem to be doing anything: Just wondering if anyone else on TNG 15.0.2 who uses this mod is having the same problem. Thanks in advance & have a great day. Regards, John

A) I have a installed Public Access Control on my site, and now I am wondering if this is normal - The Default Photo, which normally replaces the Male or Female icon at the top is not visible - all we see is "Photos (Log In)". Is there a way to maintain the control over our media yet let the default photo Icon be displayed? Would installing the Default Phot Path app resolve that issue? B) Also with Public Access mod, it looks like this affects either the Default Photo only, or the first photo... As per the second picture. Any idea if that can also be fixed? Thanks

https://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php?title=Unused_Media TNG version 15.0.2. The issue is only happening on my online site and not my local site on my Mac...which is what is confusing me. The settings for the mod are the same for both installs. I thought this was possibly a PHP issue as my online website is running PHP v8.4.7 and my local copy of TNG is running under v8.3.14. But I changed my site to v8.3.21 (the only 8.3 option that was available to me) and the issue continued. You can see the problem from the image that I have attached. The Unused Media mod is not only displaying a lot of non-media files, it seems to be going through every folder on my site. I uninstalled the mod and reinstalled it. I also uploaded a complete clean copy of every TNG site file and reapplied my mods...but no luck. I then looked at the files that the mod creates and I found 3 in the extensions folder...unused_media_folder_list.php, unusedmedia.txt and unusedmediatemp.txt. The PHP file locally was considerably shorter (354 lines) than the one online (969 lines). I deleted the online one and allowed the mod to recreate it, but again, same big number (969) of lines in the PHP file online. I note that even the start of the files differ. Here's the start of the local version of the unused_media_folder_list.php file... <?php // Unused Media folder list $d = array(); $d[0] = "documents"; $d[1] = "documents/books"; $d[2] = "documents/census"; $d[3] = "documents/certificates"; $d[4] = "documents/certificates/Birth"; $d[5] = "documents/certificates/Christening-Baptism"; $d[6] = "documents/certificates/Death"; $d[7] = "documents/certificates/Marriage"; $d[8] = "documents/certificates/War-Graves"; $d[9] = "documents/correspondence"; $d[10] = "documents/journals"; And here's the online unused_media_folder_list.php... <?php // Unused Media folder list $d = array(); $d[0] = ""; $d[1] = "/admin"; $d[2] = "/backups"; $d[3] = "/classes"; $d[4] = "/css"; $d[5] = "/documents"; $d[6] = "/documents/books"; $d[7] = "/documents/census"; $d[8] = "/documents/certificates"; $d[9] = "/documents/certificates/Birth"; $d[10] = "/documents/certificates/Christening-Baptism"; $d[11] = "/documents/certificates/Death"; $d[12] = "/documents/certificates/Marriage"; $d[13] = "/documents/certificates/War-Graves"; $d[14] = "/documents/correspondence"; $d[15] = "/documents/journals"; It's adding in folders that I can't understand why? I can't figure out what is going on or what I have done wrong?

Today I noticed that my website wat targeted several hundred times by Huawei bots The picture below shows only a few of the many visited pages. I previously made changes to my robots.txt and .htaccess file to prevent bots like this from accessing my website. I have the following mods installed to prevent unauthorized access to my website. 404 Error - TNG_Wiki supported by @Steve1200 Bot-Trap - TNG_Wiki updated by @Steve1200 Restrict Access mod - TNG_Wiki Not supported atm Rip Prevention Mod - TNG_Wiki supported by @bhemph There are a few things that worry me: How is this bot able to bypass my Google Captcha/reCaptcha request? How is this bot able to bypass my Login requirement? How is this bot able to bypass the restictions set by the mods mentioned above? Hope the forum can shed a light on these questions. I did notice that the Restrict Access mod - TNG_Wiki isn't protecting the chronology.php file by default. This chronology.php file is added by Chronology - TNG_Wiki supported by @Michel KIRSCH So to make sure the Restrict Access mod - TNG_Wiki is protecting the chronology.php file I added the code below to the restrict_access_v12.0.1.7.cfg file in order to allow access to this page to logged in users only. COMMENT: Allows only logged-in users to view Chronology %target:chronology.php% %location:% include( "tng_begin.php"); %end:% %insert:after% if( ! $allow_admin ) { $showguest=0; include("$extspath/noaccess.php"); exit; } %end:%

Good morning from Georgia, USA. I had two DOMs fail to import today (an 1850 record did import). The 1930 DOM gave the error message below, which is substantially the same as the 1940-Harrell DOM error. (EDIT: same error with a 1900 census.) My error or an Ancestry change? Thanks, Regis TNG 14.0.4 censusplus_v14.0.1.13c.cfg Ancestry.com - 1930 United States Federal Census series1 is United States Federal Census Series is US Federal Census dbid is = 6224 iid is = 4532004_00031 No header columns found after 2nd if statement No header columns found after my 1st if statement No header columns found after new if statement No header columns found after 3rd if statement No header columns found after 4th if statement Attempting to use new grid-row grid-cell format No items found after for each loop No items found after 2nd for each loop No items found after 3rd for each loop No items found after 4th for each loop No items found after 5th for each loop No items found after 6th for each loop Using new grid-row format Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: array_combine(): Argument #1 ($keys) and argument #2 ($values) must have the same number of elements in C:\xampp\htdocs\genealogy\cpscrapeALL.php:819 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\genealogy\cpscrapeALL.php(819): array_combine(Array, Array) #1 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\genealogy\cpscrapeALL.php on line 819 DOM Source of Selection.htm DOM Source of Selection Harrell.htm

Citation Master V10 for TNG 15 is now available from the TNG Wiki. New Features: A new separator option, 'none', that basically suppresses field separators entirely--supports a form of concatenation between fields. Mod parameter values are now preserved across installations when the entire mod is not replaced. Media attached to citations are now displayed in the 'Sources' section of individual pages. This is a TNG feature that was originally adapted by Citation Master V8 for source media, but citation media were not displayed in that version. Now one or the other is displayed when enabled in mod parameters, with citation media having precedence. Bugs Fixed: Log messages left over from the introduction of the configuration caching mechanism have been removed. PHP 8.4 function deprecation warnings have been fixed. Other Changes: With this release, the administrator interface for editing format specifications has been removed. (The feature was always a security risk that needed to be addressed. Removal is simpler than adding additional security checks that would require support in the Mod Manager.) In place of the format specification editor, a simple function for reloading the current format specification has been implemented. This supports loading a specification into the mod when it has been changed outside of TNG. If you are running TNG 15.0, Citation Master V10 is optional but recommended. If you are running TNG 15.0.1, V10 is required. Finally, I will be back-porting this version of Citation Master to TNG 14. That release should be ready in about a week. Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

Hello again dear experts My version: 15.0 After updating, 3 hashtags from Legacy are not displayed correctly. Before updating they were displayed correctly with three different names: The three hashtags are: 1) Ancestors 2) Cleanup 3) Steg(e)müller As an example, my father has all three hashtags, but in the 1st column they are all called “Group”. You can see my dad here: https://tng.stegemueller.dk/getperson.php?personID=I630&tree=HBS I also attach a picture. When I look in the table in phpMyAdmin there is only one “Group”. I have tried “Import custom event types and attributes only (no data is added, replaced or appended)” but it did not change anything. How can I solve the problem?

Simple SEO V8 for TNG 15 is now available from on the TNG Wiki. It's been a long time since the last major release, and the accumulated TNG code changes forced me to rethink and refactor a lot of the code. New Features: A new option for date formats called "minimal" that strictly adheres to how TNG calculates and displays it's 'year only' dates like "(1914 - 1992)". (This feature resulted from a discussion with a TNG user who noted that sometimes TNG "rounds up" and "rounds down" years in response to imprecise dates.) New processing for the "short" and "long" date formats that adhere to the most current TNG calculation and display algorithms. (One thing to note here is that the "short" format remains the default but now includes the imprecise date markings such as "abt", "bef", and "aft". If these are not your preference, you may prefer the new "minimal" format.) Individual and Family IDs, when requested through the mod parameters, are now displayed on almost all tabs related to individuals and families, but remain absent in HTML headers in page titles. Bugs Fixed: The infamous "suggest.php" bug that was causing a blank page when executed from familychart.php Two bugs related to warnings generated by familygroup.php. Testing: With this release, I implemented a new set of testing procedures to ensure that all privacy options were covered--making sure that installations with Simple SEO function exactly the same as unmodified TNG installations. This release of Simple SEO has less code and should be more resistant to TNG changes from release to release, but...the expanded ID feature results in more files being touched by the mod, and this may result in mod conflicts. I would appreciate any reports of mod conflicts so that I can address them quickly. There is some testing that has been done here, but it's frankly never enough. Finally, I will be back-porting this version of Simple SEO to TNG 14, but please be patient with me. TNG 14 required 4 separate releases of Simple SEO. So the work may take a bit of time. Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

@Ken Roy I have a weird problem that started after the installation of the Same Person Link v15.0.0.8a. I installed the mod but did de-install it to debug some issue on my site. Although I completely removed the mod and checked also in MySQL that the tng_sameperson table was dropped, however I still get below error when I do a placesearch or open a person document. I cannot find the reason why it keeps using the query. I also completely overwrote all TNG 15 files with the original TNG 15 files to have a fresh TNG 15 setup. Can you shed any light on why this is happening? An error has occurred in the TNG software. What to do: If you just installed an upgrade, you might have skipped part of the installation instructions. Go back to the upgrade readme page reread the instructions. Pay special attention to the database structure step. If you just installed TNG for the first time, you might still need to create the database tables. Return to the readme.html page to find that step. If you are the site owner, you may contact TNG support for further assistance with this problem. Please copy the query below and paste it into your message. Query: SELECT medialinkID, description, notes, altdescription, altnotes, usecollfolder, mediatypeID, personID, tng_medialinks.mediaID as mediaID, thumbpath, status, plot, eventID, alwayson, path, form, abspath, newwindow, tng_media.gedcom, private, ctop, cleft, cwidth, cheight FROM (tng_medialinks, tng_media) WHERE tng_medialinks.personID="I000060988" AND tng_media.mediaID = tng_medialinks.mediaID and dontshow != 1 AND (tng_medialinks.gedcom = "T001") ORDER BY ordernum, eventID, mediatypeID, mediaID Unknown column 'ctop' in 'SELECT'

Hello diligent developers I just want to remind you that I will always be happy to translate texts in MODs into Danish language. (This is a small thank you for the help I receive on this site).