switching between two differnt view blocks with selector

Dear Gurus, masters, first year guys, and newbies,

I have a plant nursery website that has a plant content type with several fields and many plant nodes. I have a view that creates a page and a block. The block displays a list of plant nodes by latin name.

I want the user to be able to be able to select between lets say Latin Name, Common Name, Plant Type etc....

and then the view block update and the plant view page display remain the same

doesn't have to be by ajax methods.

I believe there are several approaches.

1. change the view block settings for sort and field with php code and update page

2. create new view blocks for each option and switch between blocks by links

Any body else got some ideas? I don't know a whole lot of views code so some pointers might be helpful.

Link to website in question

Much appreciation

Mark