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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 Expression Web 4. Some exotic strings confuse the 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. Mis-formatted requests get a direct 400 Bad Request response. Log for request details including trapped PHP errors.
- 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, ...
- 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 - Search and famsearch gives 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. There is no need to stress TNG for pages that do not add to indexing.
- 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 file and send alert email (up to 5 times).
- gts034 - Fix font directory path for gts014? Still has PHP errors. More work needed. PDF disabled - users can print to PDF.
- 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 allow undefined errors.