TNG 13.0.3 Setup and Modifications

I use TNG as a web display program.
User login is only for those allowed to view the living, and is usually restricted to a branch.
Changes or editing, etc. are not allowed.

• gts000 - Changes for some exotic strings confuse the Expression Web 4 PHP code display.
• gts007 - Configure Between-And in date format to show as "1998 - 1999".
• gts011 - ID import to trimsize 5 for Family Tree Maker 2019.
• gts012 - Remove forgot/remember/reset option from login.
• gts014 - Security and request validation front-end and associated TNG modifications to make it work. Mal formed requests get a direct 400 Bad Request response. Log function for request details including trapped PHP errors. Also gts014a. And gts014b adjustments for TNG 13. Set TNG offline to keep all requests on this web site.
• gts015 - Remove remaining vestiges of global variables. Leave request variable copying. [Need further study of processvars.php.]
• gts021 - Disable genlog.txt. All needs now met by gts014 logging.
• gts022 - Add help line to Family Tree display.
• gts023 - Revise unsafe direct use of HTTP_REFERER in logout. Verify URL valid.
• gts024 - Block unused menu items: bookmarks, allmedia, whatsnew, mostwanted, reports, trees, branches, notes, etc.
• gts025 - Change all instances of die() to dieX() so that TNG can give HTTP error 404 Not Found and log the error, file, and line. Such errors never occur in normal TNG processing and always come from artificial, external TNG requests.
• gts025a - Fix search and famsearch  to give a friendly error message using their msg parameter, instead of die(). leaves all form data so user can repair and re-submit.
• gts026 - All "pagedoesnotexist" responses give a direct 410 Gone response instead of a 302 Redirect to thispagedoesnotexist.html.  Such requests are for deleted items and never TNG itself. Such user typed ID entries already get friendly error messages. Site can configure a "Not Exist" page as a PHP file or use the system or .htaccess configured error page.
• gts031 - For known robots, don't call TNG for no index/no follow pages. Reply 200 with a short "thanks for indexing" page with NoIndex/NoFollow set. There is no need to stress TNG for pages that do not add to indexing. See NoIndex.html.
• gts032 - Always display the thumbnail but give no full size image if living, linked to living, private, etc. Alt/title of image set to getName() so blocking or abbreviation options are followed for the pop-up name. I use this mostly for the individual's default image.
• gts033 - Change gts14 to notice PHP error-log files and send alert email to WebMaster (up to 5 times). Also send email for simple PHP errors (except undefined or suppressed with @).
• gts035 - Remove Edit Profile from logged-in name in header line. Not allowed on these sites.
• gts036 - Fix PHP undefined errors so can use strict error checking. Too many! Had to continue to allow undefined errors.
• gts037 - Remove Tree/Branch column from Search results. No need to display Branches there. Braches only used to allow access.
• gts038 - Change Search site to provide multiple search engines (AOL, DuckDuckGo, Google, Yahoo).
• gts039 - Suggests alternative PDF creation methods in the PDF creation popup.
• gts040 - Change gts025 dieX() to give 500 Server Error. Also for configuration problems. Send email to WebMaster for first 5 occurrences.
• gts041 - Turn off heat Map until a mapping source is decided.
• gts042 - Respond 500 Server Error to uncaught PHP throw exception using dieX().
• gts043 - Change individual display to show Gender fact only if not male/female. Also show Relation fact only if not Natural.
• gts044 - Change individual display to show Date/Place/Description events as one line. Especially nice for DPD with no Place. Remove square brackets around citation list.
• gts045 - Add text to th suggest.php form to advise that the senders email provider may put my response in their Junk or Spam folder.
• gts046 - Take tngrss.php out of HTML header in genlib.php.
• gts047 - Changes to provide only basic person and media pages to Bots. Forces tngprint=1 to suppress menus. Getperson.php provides no links to family/groups and Slide Show link suppressed. Changes gts031. Gts047a getperson.php does not include source citations for Bots.
• gts048 - Remove switch to standard from mobile footer use regular customer footer instead. Reply to requesters with 410 Gone.
• gts049 - Include canonical meta tag linking to http not https and remove special parameters to make generic call the canonical.
• gts050 - IP addresses making too many requests get a 429 Too Many Requests. Too many requests were received. Wait a while to continue.