Categorising wildlife shots by scientific taxa

[ctranter]

Hi,

What I am wondering is this. I want to be able to enter in the taxonomy of the particular animal in the photo when I post it. For people who dont know classification of living things is split into 7 categories:

# Kingdom (Split into 5 categories: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Monera)
# Phylum
# Class
# Order
# Family
# Genus
# Species

So if I took a photo of a fruit fly I would enter in

Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Arthropoda
Class - Insecta
Order - Diptera
Family - Drosophilidae
Genus - Drosophila
Species - D. melanogaster

And then in a browse page I would like it so there will be a list of all the kingdoms that have photos in them. So If I only had photos of animals and plants, it would show 'Animalia' and 'Plantae'.

Then if you clicked on those , say 'Animalia' it would list all the Phylum of the photos that are in the kingdom arthropoda.

For example:

Menu shows two headings "Animalia" and "plantae"
you click on "animalia" then it has a list of two phylum: "Arthropoda" and "Chordate"
If you click on "Anthropoda" its lists the thumbnails for all the images that are classified as Kingdom:Animailia, Phylum:Arthropoda.

So really its sort of subcategories. I hope if you understand what I am saying its shouldnt be to hard to do. Maybe :)

Well thats what I am trying to do, but I would really appreciate it if one of you really clever and kind people might be able to help.

Thankssss in advance.

[Connie]

ctranter, somehow you mix PixelPost with a encyclopedia :lol:

for this you will need a system which will allow to build dynamic menues on the fly, reading the database...

remember that PixelPost's mission is to stay clear and simple and transparent, so this can be done for sure only in an AddOn

a zoological AddOn, let's call it Archive-Fauna.php

somebody here with time enough and a strong will?

[ctranter]

apparently not :( . I shall just have to teach myself php.