David Blomstrom wrote:
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Can
you just concatenate
the two strings together after you get them from the
database? e.g.
$parent.$name? And, just split() or explode() the
string when you get it from the URL?
Consider the following URL's:
1. stacks/leo
2. stacks/Panthera_leo
The first is "recognized" by my database and fetches
information. The second doesn't work. If I concatenate
then split the link as you suggest, will it produce a
link that looks like #2 yet is recognized by my
database?
If so, I'll learn how to do those functions.
Yes.
The problem here is a PHP one, not an SQL one.. MySql doesn't know
anything about your links, that's not it's job, but it does know about
fields. It's PHP's job to know about links and make MySql "recognize"
the links by formatting them in an appropriate way in the SQL.
in the taxonomic names, replace spaces with '-' (look that up... it's
one of the PHP string functions) By the way, I hope the names don't
have any ' or , in them, if so, you'll need to do more replacing.
Search for replace on the php site.
Then, concatenate like this:
$parent.'_'.$name
Add that to the end of your URL.
then when you get the URL parameter 'taxon', explode() it on '_', then
replace all - with spaces in each of the two values you get.
Yes, there will definitely be spaces between words. I
haven't yet decided whether I'll replace them with -,
_ or . (period). However, I'm leaning towards
underscores ( _ ) for this particular page and hyphens
( - ) on a topics page.
T
don't use periods. those have other meanings in PHP, and it can get to
be confusing.
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