Re: Tachinid maps
Hi
I'm new to the forum, so I'll probably ask a lot of silly questions - apologies in advance! ;)
I manage the Tachinid Recording Scheme website - currently using self-coded PHP/MySQL. I'd like to move over to a platform based around WordPress (or possibly drupal if someone can give me a good reason for using it), which means doing a couple of things:
1. populating my own taxon database with the NBNSYS codes.
2. developing PHP modules that interface with the NBN web-services system to retrieve maps etc.
With regard to #1 is there any way that I can generate a simple CSV/XML containing all current/valid species names in the taxon database relating to Diptera-Tachinidae, with the NBNSYS code? I currently hold the BRC species number against each species but I am guessing you don't have that so I'll have to rely on genus/species as my key?
When I have the NBNSYS codes in my database I feel that it should be a simple job to issue calls to the NBN web-services server but I'm having real trouble making sense of the help pages. There is a very basic introduction to dynamic pages but then it seems to drop the user in at the deep end with Java & .NET. Is there a simple PHP tutorial for retrieving maps for a species?
Thanks in advance - ChrisR. :)
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD. (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)