A Genealogy System for the Web Matthew A. Page November 20, 2002

System Overview  Goals Develop a system that would display genealogy data over the web and allow people to add their own data.  Why? To make my wife happy.

Description  Display Genealogy data from Database  Allow users to add/upload data  Allow admin to… Add/Delete users Approve data Import uploaded files

Data Formats  GedXML file adopted

System Architecture  PHP server side language  MySQL database management system  Linux Operating System  Smattering of Javascript and HTML

How created…  Prototyping Client was unsure of what she wanted exactly Fuzziness of requirements didn’t lead to difficulties, though. Make it work and then make it pretty.

Design Methodology  Fusebox Methodology One central entry point All internal links point to that one page Distributed to correct place from there Easier security, modifications and development

Algorithms and Data Structures  Simple ‘tree’ array to store data for the tree view  XML import – Class to store new People Class to store new Families

Timelines

Conclusions  Successfully delivered a website to the client  I learned: More about PHP and MySQL Fusebox Architecture Better Project management skills

Home Page

Tree View

Person View

Tree View

Family View

Admin Tools

Questions?