• Persons, families, events, sources, repositories and citations can be added and edited directly, without the need for a gedcom import.
• Language codes for non default languages are shown in the url, which enables search engines to index pages separately for all languages.
• Ancestors reports now contain all children of the ancestors, with links between generations (from child to parents and from parents to child) and between partners.
• Descendants reports now contain links from child to parents.
• Privacy flags are no longer calculated after gedcom import, but on the fly; they are cached and reset when the cache is reset; they are also updated when records are added, edited or deleted.
• Cron job functionality added for maintainance.
• Separate stastics for each tree.
• Pages can have child pages linked to them.
• Users can choose to send a comment only to the admin, without it being stored in the database.
• When a tree is deleted, the bookmarks linked to this tree are also deleted.
• Many more minor improvements…

No longer for free

As I announced earlier, from this version on, Family Tree PHP will no longer be free. The reasons for this I have stated in the earlier announcement. The price will be 14.95 EUR, but for this beta release the price is only 9.95 EUR. So if you buy a license now, you get a discount of 5.00 EUR. Language and template packages can still be downloaded for free and anyone who provides a translation or template set for this new version, gets a free license (or a refund if you already purchased a license). In addition to that, anyone who in the past made a donation, can contact me to get a free license too.

How to update:

Update instructions

Because the database structure is very much changed, it is recommended to do a new gedcom import after you have updated to this version. If you do not, no data will be lost, but some data might not be in the right fields.

• The script is getting more and more complex and it takes ever more time to develop it further and keep doing this right. If I want to keep doing this, I need to get some money out of it. Otherwise I cannot justify spending this much time and need to start spending it on doing something else.
• There are not enough donations coming in to provide this money.

Some of you have suggested that I should ask money for support only, or offer a paid hosting solution, or else. I have considered this, but I have decided not to go this way, because I think it best to seek a correlation between the quality of the script and the money I get out of it. If I should get my money from support or hosting, it would be in my interest to make the script more difficult to use or to install, so that more people would need support or special hosting. I have seen this already with donations: the more problems there were with the script, the more users were willing to donate. When the script became more stable, donations became less and less. So this would not be good, not for me, neither for you. We all want a high quality script, that is easy to install and easy to use. When each user pays a small price for the right to use Family Tree PHP, I can afford to spend more time developing. And it will be in my interest to keep you all happy. It will be in my interest to keep the group that needs support as small as possible, and no longer the other way round.

About the terms: I have decided on a price of 14.95 EUR. Registered users will of course get free updates and bug fixes untill version 2.0 is released (which will not be within a year) and will then get a special upgrading price. Anyone who provides a complete translation for version 1.0 may use the script for free and there will be a 30 day money back garantuee for everyone.

I understand that I will now lose some of you as users. I hope most of you will accept this decision and stay using Family Tree PHP for a long time to come. Anyway, I am looking forward to your reactions.

If you have version 0.6(a/b/c/d/e/f), you only have to upload the changed files:

• /core/addmedia.php
• /core/editmedia.php
• /includes/classes/gedcom.php

If you still have an older version than 0.6 and want to update, you will have to do a full update.

Note that the version number of your installation will still say “0.6″, even if you do a full update to version 0.6g.

If you have version 0.6(a/b/c/d/e), you only have to upload the changed files:

• /js/backup.js
• /js/bookmarks.js
• /js/comments.js
• /js/dashboard.js
• /js/filemanager.js
• /js/gedcoms.js
• /js/pages.js
• /js/posts.js
• /js/trees.js
• /js/users.js

If you still have an older version than 0.6 and want to update, you will have to do a full update.

Note that the version number of your installation will still say “0.6″, even if you do a full update to version 0.6f.

If you are content with how everything is working now, you can skip this update. You are not missing out on any functionality, only on some usability.

If you have version 0.6(a/b/c/d), you only have to upload the changed file:

• /includes/functions.php

If you still have an older version than 0.6 and want to update, you will have to do a full update.

Note that the version number of your installation will still say “0.6″, even if you do a full update to version 0.6e.

Of you are running a PHP version older than 5.3, you can of course skip this update, although it could be wise to apply it in case your hosting provider updates to 5.3 before the next version of Family Tree PHP is released.

• The cache is automaticly reset after a gedcom import, after a settings update and after deleting a tree.
• Context menus appear when hovering over links to persons, events, notes, multimedia, source and repository records.
• Option added to use only numbers for dates.
• Option added to skip multimedia records on gedcom import.
• Default timezone can be changed via settings (PHP 5.1 and higher only).
• Users can select their own timezone (PHP 5.1 and higher only).
• FamilyTreeSeeker.com box added.
• Warning when in debugging mode.
• Better error handling for file uploads.
• Better error handling for image processing.
• When you invite users the login page url is send in the email.
• When a tree is deleted, the comments linked to this tree are also deleted.
• When a note or multimedia item is deleted, comments, bookmarks and citations linked to this record and links between this and other records are also deleted.
• Persons, families, events, sources, citations and repositories can be deleted.
• Sorting and filtering in MySql queries can now be changed or set to language dependent (using collations).
• Links to search pages for persons, families, notes and multimedia can be added to the header and footer menus.
• _AKAN, _RUFNAME (Brother’s Keeper) and _ALIA (Pro-Gen) tags supported.

How to update:

Update instructions

Users who already updated to the beta version of version 0.6 do not have to do a full update, but they do need to upload the new files, because there still have been some bug fixes since version 0.6c:

• Some ajax functions did not work on some servers.
• The surnames list did only contain surnames beginning with a-z.
• Links in comments rss were broken.
• A few minor bugs.