Taxa Tree Generator (Catalogue of Life)

This website generates a taxa tree compatible with Workbench and Wizzard from Specify 6 Specify 7.

Requirements

1. PHP 7.2+ (older versions may work)
2. PHP Zip
3. Any Webserver

Installation

All of the configuration parameters you must change for the site to work are located in ./config/required.php Optional parameters are located in ./config/optional.php

1. Open the ./config/required.php file. Change the logic to properly detect correct CONFIGURATION and DEVELOPMENT constant values. The value of DEVELOPMENT will affect the error reporting level.
2. Set LINK to an address the website would be served on.
3. Set WORKING_LOCATION to an empty folder. This would be the destination for all the files created in the process. Make sure the webserver has READ and WRITE permissions to this folder. Warning! Files present in this directory may be deleted.
4. Run http://<yourdomain>/refresh_data/ to download data.
5. Configure your webserver to point to the directory where this repository is saved.

Optional settings

You can go over the other settings in the ./config/optional.php file and see if there is anything you would like to adjust.

For example:

1. You can exclude internal IPs by adding them to IPS_TO_EXCLUDE. The data from those addresses would still be collected, but it wont be shown
2. You can set up daily CRON to the following location http://<yourdomain>/cron/refresh_data.php. This will automatically check for new versions of the taxa tree and download it.

Credit for used resources

There were snippets of code/files from the following resources used:

• Bootstrap 4.5.0
• jQuery 3.5.1
• Chart.js
• Specify 7 icon