Database export

Geltmar Buxhoeveden — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:46:19 -0000

I fear, that's what it looks like in phpmyfamily 1.4.x. In my 2.0.x version logging in as admin gives me a link for "complete gedcom". The export I remember to have programmed for the 1.4 version only existed in a zip file on my webserver 10+ years ago. I deleted it at some time and have looked at some possible places on old hardware. Unfortunately without success.
The safest way of achieving your goal is probably:
- sqldump of your database
- install of version 2 on a local computer
- restore database from sqldump
- follow the steps for upgrading
- gedcom export from version 2

Database export

J.M.J. van Bommel — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:02:09 -0000

Hi there, for a few days now I can log in as Admin to view and change things.
I have seen that when I am logged in and go to a screen of a person, I can create a gedcom file of that person. But no relationships are shown in this. For example, the "Details" screen does contain marriage data and children and brothers and sisters, but they are not in the gedcom.
And does a gedcom file have to be created for each person? I thought that the entire family tree was included in a gedcom file.

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Geltmar Buxhoeveden — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:20:42 -0000

Thanks for clarifying. I should have read the whole thread, sorry. From what I can see in your "Genealogie Vlieland" database is, that you have quite a number of media files. That is not really a problem, as only references to the pictures are exported. If there is more than one picture per person it seems to depend on the target systems import what is going to happen. Pictures can be assigned to events in gedcom, but the phpmyfamily export only assigns to individuals.

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J.M.J. van Bommel — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:33:39 -0000

Thanks Geltmar for the detailed answer; as I explained earlier there are indeed 3 different databases and they are completely separate. So they can also be exported separately.

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Geltmar Buxhoeveden — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:16:06 -0000

Okay, I'll try to describe, what worked for me, what's currently (probably) wrong with the export and some things I did to repair the data.

backup everything !!! esp. the database
follow the instruction to upgrade from latest phpmyfamily 1.4.x to 2.2.x (this shouldn't do much to the data, some restructuring of the database and basically you get a new codebase, that is completely different. Within that codebase there is a gedcom.php to export all data in one gedcom file)
I did some adjustments to that export, as I was interested in geo-data to be preserved
What works with the export:
- Individuals with their dates, notes, sources are exported
- relationships xx is child of yy are preserved
- Media is exported (not the actual images, but the links to the files)
What is missing:
- Individuals are not grouped into families -> can automatically be repaired by other tools
- geo-data that I added is misplaced in the export file (three line of code to change)

So I guess it depends very much on the kind of tree you have. If it's just a lot of people -> no problem. If there are complicated family relationships, I am not sure if it is good enough.
One thing I found out, once I had everything in my new system (webtrees), that a rather large number of weddings got missing. But that might be fixable in the export code, as the missing weddings follow a specific pattern (one partner is missing all date information). So adding a line of code that just says 2 BIRT or something similar to people without that information might fix this).
If you need further help, just ask. If it is public data you need to export I can give it a try.
Regards
Geltmar

PS: From your website I see , that you manage three trees from one interface ... something I have no expertise in. Is it all in one database? How can each family be addressed? First impression ... you are running 3 sub-folders of the code ... All trees use media extensively.

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J.M.J. van Bommel — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:15:57 -0000

Hello Geltmar, thanks for your message. Can you tell me some more about the "somewhat workable" and also about those "quirks" in relation to "good enough?
The database concerned in our case contains more than 22.000 people. So you'll understand that manually fixing things afterwards is no option!

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Geltmar Buxhoeveden — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:33:07 -0000

Just want to encourage you to go the "upgrade road". It's quite some time time ago, but I was able to migrate from 1.4 tree to 2.x. Once everything is in there, a somewhat workable gedcom export is available. I used it last month to migrate to webtrees. The export has some quirks, but depending on your data might be "good enough".

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J.M.J. van Bommel — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:31:14 -0000

Thank you Ian. I'll contact the guy who owns the website and perhaps we'll be able to make an export-file.

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Ian Wright — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:14:36 -0000

possibly under preferences - I think you will need to be an admin
There aren't that many places to look!
I am running version 2 so can't really compare but it should be similar

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J.M.J. van Bommel — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:14:38 -0000

Thank you, Ian, for your answer. Where can I find the gedcom export that you mentioned? Or how do I do that?

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