(Sorry if this is a repeat; I think my first post
didn't go through.)
I'm still stuck on the problem I asked about a day or
two ago. I'm working on a page at
http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/ that draws data from a
table that lists animal taxons (orders, families,
species, etc.) in a child-parent relationship.
It works exactly the way it should. Try
http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia, watching the
navigation links and the column on the right, for
example. The problem is that the children of genera -
species - are properly displayed as TWO WORDS - the
child (species) and parent (genus).
http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis illustrates the
problem I run into when I tweak my PHP so that Canis
lupus is displayed instead of just lupus, for example.
If you click Canis lupus or type in
http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus, you get a
404 Page Not Found Error.
I want it to work like this page:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.e...anis_lupus.html
Notice that the parent displays with just one
variable:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.e...tion/Canis.html
But I don't think I'm ever going to figure this out
until I encounter someone who already has a similar
script up and running. In the meantime, I had another
idea. Suppose I create a new table field that lists
the full species name, including an underscore.
For example, genera and species look something like
this in my current table:
NAME | PARENT
Canis | Canidae
lupus | Canis
Panthera | Felidae
leo | Panthera
Home | Pongidae
sapiens | Homo
My new table might look like this:
NEWNAME | NAME | PARENT
Canis | Canis | Canidae
Canis_lupus | lupus | Canis
Panthera | Panthera | Felidae
Panthera_leo | leo | Panthera
Homo | Homo | Pongidae
Homo_sapiens | sapiens | Homo
So instead of displaying Parent + Name (Homo sapiens)
and adding an underscore, I just display NewName
(Homo_sapiens).
I'm just wondering if there's anything I need to know
about using underscores in database tables. I assume I
can manipulate the underscore with PHP and/or Apache
mod_rewrite, if necessary.
Thanks.
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