$person->set($fieldname, $value)

Up: class Person

This changes the value of the identified field and returns the former value. It has two parameters:

parameter	description
$field	The field name is case insensitive and may be a synonym defined by the derived class to facilitate readability. Late static binding is used so this method takes advantage of field name definitions in the derived class. The field name may also be a temporary field defined by assigning a value to it in this method. This method creates a trace entry if the field name does not correspond to any field in the record and debugging is enabled.
$value	The new value to assign to the field.

It overloads the base implementation as follows:

field name	description
'idir'	Normally this field cannot be altered because it is assigned by the database server, so the attempt to set the value is ignored. However the support for loading a GEDCOM 5.5 file creates instances of Person that are identified by a character string.
'gender'	In addition to specifying the value using the numeric constants Person::MALE, Person::FEMALE, and Person::UNKNOWN, this can also be set using strings "M", "MALE", "F", "FEMALE", "?" OR "UNKNOWN".
'givenname'	The instances of class Name associated with this Person are updated.
'surname'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'soundslike'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'prefix'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'title'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'userref'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'namenote'	The primary instance of class Name associated with this Person is updated.
'birthd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred birth instance of class Event. The field 'birthsd' is also updated here and in all associated instances of class Name.
'chrisd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred christening instance of class Event.
'death'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred death instance of class Event.
'buriedd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred buried/cremated instance of class Event.
'baptismd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred LDS baptism instance of class Event.
'endowd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred LDS endowment instance of class Event.
'confirmationd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred LDS confirmation instance of class Event.
'initiatoryd'	The new value may be either a human readable date or an internal representation. This updates the preferred LDS initiatory instance of class Event.
'idlrbirth'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Location or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred birth instance of class Event.
'idlrchris'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Location or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred christening instance of class Event.
'idlrdeath'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Location or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred death instance of class Event.
'idlrburied'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Location or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred buried instance of class Event.
'idtrbaptism'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Temple or the name of a Temple as a string. This updates the preferred LDS baptism instance of class Event.
'idtrendow'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Temple or the name of a Temple as a string. This updates the preferred LDS endowment instance of class Event.
'idtrconfirmation'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Temple or the name of a Temple as a string. This updates the preferred LDS confirmation instance of class Event.
'idtrinitiatory'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Temple or the name of a Temple as a string. This updates the preferred LDS initiatory instance of class Event.
'idarbirth'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Address or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred birth instance of class Event.
'idarchris'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Address or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred christening instance of class Event.
'idardeath'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Address or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred death instance of class Event.
'idarburied'	The new value may either be the numeric key of an instance of class Address or the name of a Location as a string. This updates the preferred buried instance of class Event.
cremated	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
living	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
baptismkind	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
ldsb	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
ldse	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
confirmationkind	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
ldsc	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
ldsi	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
templetag	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
fsdups	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
fsordinance	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag1	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag2	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag3	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag4	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag5	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag6	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag7	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag8	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
tag9	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
taggroup	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
savetag	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
qstag	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
srchtag	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
srchtagigi	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
srchtagrg	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
srchtagfs	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
rgexclude	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
remindertag	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
remindertagdeath	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
alreadyused	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
imported	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
nevermarried	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
directline	The new value may be specified as 0, 1, 'N', or 'Y'.
fssync	The new value is validated to be between 0 and 3.

This method returns the former value of the field.

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