After taging and enrich your media with MetaData you would like how to select or find specific media selected by the MetaData. Follwoing page describes parameters for the  media explorer.

The media explorer of phTagr has some top level sections followed by parameters to query only a subset of the media.

Top Levels

The top levels are immediatly followed by the URL of the media explorer.

tag/tag[,tag2,...]
Show all media with a specific tag
category/category[,category2,...]
Show all media of a specific category
location/location[,location2,...]
Show all media of a specific location
date/YYYY[/MM[/DD]]
Show media of a specific date. The date can be given in years or month or even a specifc date.  date/2008 shows all media of the year 2009, while  date/2008/05/11 shows media of 11th may of 2008
query/
General query which is used to build an own query with parameters. E.g.  query/tags:night/sort:-date
search/
Shows the advanced search form
user/user
Shows only media of a specific user

Top Levels for Users

Following top level is only for users

group/group:group name or group ID
Select a specific group

Parameters

Parameters can be attached to the URL of the media explorer (and RSS, MediaRSS URL, too). All parameters are concatenated with a slash. E.g. media explorer URL/query/parameter1/parameter2/parameter3. Each parameter has a name and a value which is separated by a colon. Eg. name:value. A full example looks like  query/tags:night/categories:vacation/sort:-date.

tags:tag[,tag2,...]
List of tags which the media should include. Note: -flower exclude the tag flower
categories:category[,category2,...]
List of categories which the media should include. Also possible -vacation for exclusion
locations:location[,location2,...]
List of locations which the media should include. -cambodia to exclude location cambodia
from:YYYY-MM-DD
All media starting with a specific date. Eg. from:2009-03-26 shows all media at or older than 26th march of 2009
to:YYYY-MM-DD
All media until a specific date
page:number
Set the page number. Eg. page:2 shows the 2nd page
show:number
Page size. Eg. show:36 displays 36 media
order:sort order
Sort order. Possible values are: date (youngest first), -date (oldest first), random, newest, changes

Parameters for Users

Following parameters are only for phTagr users

user:user name/user ID
Show only media from a specific user given by user name or user ID
group:group name/group ID
Show only a specific group given by group name or group ID
visibility:level
Level of visibility. Possible values are: any, private, group, user, and public
type:media type
Select specific media type. Values are: any, image, or video