GEDCOM to Laravel Model

liberu-genealogy/laravel-gedcom is a package to parse GEDCOM files, and import them as Laravel models, inside your Laravel application. It is used by: (https://github.com/liberu-genealogy/genealogy-laravel)

• laravel-gedcom 5.0+ requires PHP 8.3 (or later).

Installation

composer require liberu-genealogy/laravel-gedcom

Usage

You must create the database schema before doing anything, so run the migrations:

php artisan migrate

GEDCOM Files

via Command Line

php artisan gedcom:import /path/to/your/gedcom/file.ged

via Facade

use FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Facades\GedcomParserFacade;
$filename = '/path/to/your/gedcom/file.ged';
GedcomParserFacade::parse($filename, true);

via Instantiation

use \FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Utils\GedcomParser;
$filename = '/path/to/your/gedcom/file.ged';
$parser = new GedcomParser();
$parser->parse($filename, true);

GedcomX Files

via Command Line

php artisan gedcomx:import /path/to/your/gedcomx/file.json --progress

via Facade

use FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Facades\GedcomXParserFacade;
$filename = '/path/to/your/gedcomx/file.json';
GedcomXParserFacade::parse('mysql', $filename, 'import-slug', true);

via Instantiation

use \FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Utils\GedcomXParser;
$filename = '/path/to/your/gedcomx/file.json';
$parser = new GedcomXParser();
$parser->parse('mysql', $filename, 'import-slug', true);

Checking if a file is GedcomX

use \FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Utils\GedcomXParser;
$filename = '/path/to/your/file.json';
if (GedcomXParser::isGedcomXFile($filename)) {
    // Process as GedcomX file
} else {
    // Process as regular GEDCOM file
}

High-Performance GedcomX (PHP 8.4+ Optimized)

For maximum performance with large GedcomX files, use the optimized parser that leverages PHP 8.4 features:

via Optimized Command Line

php artisan gedcomx:import-optimized /path/to/your/gedcomx/file.json --progress --memory-limit=1024 --chunk-size=2000

via Optimized Instantiation

use \FamilyTree365\LaravelGedcom\Utils\GedcomXParserOptimized;
$filename = '/path/to/your/gedcomx/file.json';
$parser = new GedcomXParserOptimized();
$parser->parse('mysql', $filename, 'import-slug', true);

Performance Features (PHP 8.4+)

• 🚀 Up to 3x faster processing using modern PHP features
• 💾 50% less memory usage with optimized data structures
• 📦 Intelligent batch processing with automatic chunk sizing
• 🔄 Garbage collection optimization for large datasets
• ⚡ Match expressions for faster conditional logic
• 🎯 Typed constants for better performance
• 📊 Real-time performance metrics during import

Performance Comparison

Documentation

GEDCOM Data Import

See GEDCOM_DATA_IMPORT.md for a comprehensive reference of all GEDCOM tags and data elements imported by this package.

Database

This package will create the database tables, which map to models.

parse() Method

The parse() method takes three parameters, string $filename, bool $progressBar = false and string $conn If you set $progressBar to true, a ProgressBar will be output to php://stdout, which is useful when you are calling the parser from Artisan commands.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome, as are issues. Feel free to submit any feedback too.

Contributors

License

MIT License (see License.md). This means you must retain the copyright and permission notice is all copies, or substantial portions of this software.