Database Host, Name, User Name, Password
These fields must be filled in before your database can be accessed. Obtain the information from your web host provider. Your host name may also require a port number or a socket path (i.e., "localhost:3306" or "localhost:/path/to/socket"). Case is important, so be mindful to type in everything exactly as it was given to you. If you are acting as your own webmaster, be sure you have created a database and added a user to it.

Table Names
You shouldn't have to change any of the default names unless you already have one or more tables with one or more of these names. Always make sure all table names are filled in.

Root Path
This is the system path to your root directory, plus the additional path to the folder where you will put your TNG files. It is not a web address. You must include a trailing slash. When you first open this page, your Root Path should be correct. Do not change it unless you are an advanced user or have been instructed to do so.

Home Page
All TNG menus include a link to the "Home Page". Enter the address for this link here. By default this is the index.php page in the folder with your other TNG files. It must be a relative link ("index.php" or "../otherhomepage.html"), not an absolute link ("http://yoursite.com").

Genealogy URL
The web address for your genealogy folder (i.e., "http://mysite.com/genealogy").

Target Frame
If your site uses frames, use this field to indicate in which frame the TNG pages should display. If you are not using frames, leave this as "_self".

Language
Your default language folder (i.e., 'English'). You may have more than one language available to visitors, but this language will always display first.

Character Set
The character set for your default language. If this is left blank, the browser's default character set will be used. The character set for English and other languages using the 26-character Roman alphabet is ISO-8859-1.

Max Search Results
This limits the number of results that can be displayed for any public search query. This should be a relatively small, manageable number in order to maximize efficiency and enhance the user experience.

Headstone / History / Backup / Photo Folders
Folder names for these respective entities. All should have global read+write+execute permissions (777 or 775, although some systems will allow 755).

Photos Extension
The file extension assigned to all small pedigree-style photos. Other photos need not have this extension. The .jpg extension is recommended for most photos.

Show Extended Photo Info
If this option is checked, any available extended information will be displayed for each photo. This includes the physical file name, the dimensions in pixels, and any existing IPTC data.

Thumbnails Prefix
When generating thumbnails automatically, TNG will prepend this value to the original image file name to create the thumbnail file name. If the file name of the original includes path information, the prefix will be included directly before the file name. This prefix can include a folder name (ie, "thumbnails/"). If you will be using a folder name as part of the prefix, be sure that this folder exists and has the same permissions as the main Photos folder.

Thumbnails Suffix
When generating thumbnails automatically, TNG will append this value to the original image file name to create the thumbnail file name.

Thumbnail Max Height
When TNG automatically creates a thumbnail image, the image will be no taller than this (pixels).

Thumbnail Max Width
When TNG automatically creates a thumbnail image, the image will be no wider than this (pixels).

Columns in Thumbnail View
When browsing all photos in thumbnail view, this many thumbnails will be displayed in a single row. If more exist, additional rows will be displayed up to the "Maximum Search Result" number of rows.

New links for Photos/Histories
When editing an existing photo, history or headstone record, this number will dictate how many new person or family links can be added on one page. If you do not enter a value, the number of available new link slots will be set to 3.

Custom Header / Footer / Meta
File names for the page fragments to be used as your TNG page header, footer and HEAD section ("meta"). Files with the default names are supplied. To use PHP coding in these files, they must be renamed to have .php extensions.

Tab Style Sheet
The file that dictates the style of tabs displayed on many of the public pages. An alternate style (tngtabs2.css) also comes with TNG. To view tabs with this style, enter "tngtabs2.css" in this field and click "Save" at the bottom of the page, then look up any individual in the public area. The default style (tngtabs1.css) makes use of two images, "tngtab.png" (inactive tabs) and "tngtabactive.png" (active tabs). To change the color of these images, you may use any image editor, or click on the link at the end of this paragraph. On the next page, enter decimal values for the red, green and blue components of the desired new color, then click Submit. You will then see a new image, which you can save on your site as either tngtab.gif or tngtabactive.png. http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/switchcolor.php

Display Menu
The "menu" here is the list of TNG pages you can visit that aren't directly related to an individual, family or source. For all pages except the home page, you can elect to display this menu as a row of icons, or as a dropdown list of text, or not at all.

Menu Location
The TNG menu may be located on the top left of every page, just above the individual's name or other page heading, or on the top right of every page, directly across from the name or other page heading. The dynamic language selection dropdown will be located in the same section of the screen.

Individuals Start With
This indicates which information will be initially viewable when an individual record is displayed. If you select "Personal Information Only", then other categories such as Notes, Citations or Photos and Histories will be hidden until they or "All" are explicitly selected by the user.

E-mail Address
Your e-mail address. When visitors request a new user account, an e-mail message will be sent to this address.

Site Owner
Your name, or your business name. This name will appear on all outgoing e-mail messages originating from TNG.

Server time offset (hours)
If your server is in a different time zone than you are, enter the difference in hours here. If your time is behind the server time, enter a negative number.

Require Login
Normally anyone can view your public pages, with a login to see data for living individuals being optional. If, however, you want to require everyone to log in before they can see anything beyond the home page, check this box.

Show LDS Data
To always show LDS data (where available), select Always (this was the default before). To turn off all LDS information and the ability to manually enter LDS data, select Never. To make this switch dependent on user permissions, select Depending on user rights. In this case, only logged-in users who have rights to see LDS data will see it. It will be hidden from all others.

Show Living Data
To always show living data (dates and places for living individuals), select Always. To turn off all living information, select Never. To make the display of living data dependent on user permissions, select Depending on user rights. In this case, only logged-in users who have rights to see living data will see it. It will be hidden from all others.

Show Names for Living
To hide the names of individuals marked as Living (no death or burial information, plus a birthdate less than 110 years ago), select No. Names of living individuals will be replaced with the word "Living". To show the surname and first initial(s) of living individuals, select Abbreviate first name. To always show all names for everyone, select Yes.

Dynamic Language Change
If you have set up more than one language and want users to be able to select a different language "on the fly", select Allow.

Show Notes
Allows you to choose whether event-specific notes are displayed in the usual Notes section at the bottom of the page, or adjacent to the corresponding event.

Name Order
Dictates how names will be displayed in most cases (some lists always display the surname first). Choose to display the first name first (Western) or the surname first (Oriental). If nothing is selected, names will be displayed "first name first".

Surname Prefixes
Governs how surname prefixes (i.e., "de" or "van") are treated. By default, anything imported in the GEDCOM surname field is part of the surname, and this dictates how surnames are sorted ("de Kalb" comes before "van Buren"). You can elect to keep surname prefixes as part of the surname, or you can choose to treat them as separate entities (thus, "van Buren" would then sort before "de Kalb"). Existing surnames will not be affected unless manually edited or converted with surnameconvert400.php.

Prefix Detection on Import
If you have elected to treat surname prefixes as separate entities, this section will provide rules to help the import routine decide what is a prefix. Prefixes are defined as portions of the name separated by spaces, but you can choose how many prefixes from each name will be part of TNG's prefix. In other words, if you indicate that the "Num. prefixes each (max)" is 1, then only the "van" from "van der Merwe" would be moved to the prefix field. On the other hand, if you set this value to 2 or higher, "van der" would be the prefix. You may also indicate one or more specific prefixes that should always be treated as full prefixes. In other words, if you set this value to "van der", then "van der" will always be considered a valid prefix, regardless of how high or low you set the previous value. Separate multiple values with commas. To recognize a prefix offset by an apostrophe, include the apostrophe in this list. For example: "van,vander,van der,d',a',de,das".

Max Descendancy Generations
The number of generations displayed on a descendancy chart (standard or register).

Default Descendancy Option
Choose which descendancy chart option appears by default. Both options will still be available to all visitors, no matter which one appears first.

Register Generations
Choose to always show each person when displaying a generation, or avoid redundancy by electing to "Remove individuals with no family." That option will only display those individuals when they appear as children. They will not be redisplayed when their entire generation is outlined later in the report.

Max Generations, GEDCOM download
The number of maximum number generations that can be exported in a publicly requested GEDCOM file.

What's New Days
The number of days to keep new items on the "What's New" page.

What's New Limit
The maximum number of items in each category to display on the "What's New" page.

Default Tree
When more than one tree exists, all pages where a selection is possible (including the search utility on your home page) will default to "All Trees". If you instead want to point this to one tree in particular, select that tree here. Whenever a user enters a URL without a tree ID (or with a blank tree ID), the request will be rerouted to this tree. NOTE: If you have only one tree, it is better to leave this field blank.