[RESOLVED] Folder structures

[cluelessPHP]

I am almost 100% sure I'm over thinking this but I started to make something however I'm almost positive I'm over thinking it (not that I have ever done that before :rolleyes: ) Basically I'm thinking the structure should roughly be:

-Main folder 
Index.php
-Assets folder 
   -JS folder
   -CSS folder
   -Images folder 
-Classes folder 
-pages folder (main content will go here) 

[NogDog]

Where is your Tests directory? 😉

Assuming everything goes through the index.php file, you might want a .htaccess config to force that, with an exception for the Assets folder, whose contents you'll want to access directly, most likely. Here's what I used for my cwrblog code (in which I used essentially a MVC-style directory structure):

DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^favicon static/favicon.ico
    RewriteRule !^static index.php
</IfModule>
ErrorDocument 404 /static/404.html

[cluelessPHP]

Tests directory? erm it's ... on holiday :p (i'll add one)

This is what I had done so far, going to look how you set yours up, some of it's a bit ummm but can but try

https://github.com/cluelessphp/structure

[Weedpacket]

Just throwing this out there, but assets of different types can already be distinguished by their file extension, yes? Does putting them in separate directories as well add anything?

[cluelessPHP]

Weedpacket;11064179 wrote:

Just throwing this out there, but assets of different types can already be distinguished by their file extension, yes? Does putting them in separate directories as well add anything?

Mostly it was to try and keep it tidy

After this disaster I'm trying to keep everything more organized

https://github.com/cluelessphp/wot

[NogDog]

Weedpacket;11064179 wrote:

Just throwing this out there, but assets of different types can already be distinguished by their file extension, yes? Does putting them in separate directories as well add anything?

Functionally, no; but if you have more than a few files in each category, it's generally easier to find the file you want in your editor/ide if you can just go to the js|css|img|whatever directory. Now, if we used file prefixes instead of suffixes.... 🙂

[dalecosp]

NogDog;11064183 wrote:

Functionally, no; but if you have more than a few files in each category, it's generally easier to find the file you want in your editor/ide if you can just go to the js|css|img|whatever directory. Now, if we used file prefixes instead of suffixes.... 🙂

Yes, but perhaps he's talking about the "assets" directory, which seems superfluous; Why $root/assets/js or $root/assets/css when you could use $root/js or $root/css?

[NogDog]

dalecosp;11064189 wrote:

Yes, but perhaps he's talking about the "assets" directory, which seems superfluous; Why $root/assets/js or $root/assets/css when you could use $root/js or $root/css?

Eh...I kind of like it, personally; sort of like a /lib/ directory for all your 3rd-party packages.

Ultimately, as long as it's clear, consistent, and supports any auto-loading stuff you want to do...whatever. 🙂

[cluelessPHP]

NogDog;11064191 wrote:

Eh...I kind of like it, personally; sort of like a /lib/ directory for all your 3rd-party packages.

Ultimately, as long as it's clear, consistent, and supports any auto-loading stuff you want to do...whatever. 🙂

That was what I was thinking, originally I'd called it "thingys" but that seemed a little...let's go with vague :p

[dalecosp]

NogDog;11064191 wrote:

Eh...I kind of like it, personally; sort of like a /lib/ directory for all your 3rd-party packages.

Ultimately, as long as it's clear, consistent, and supports any auto-loading stuff you want to do...whatever. 🙂

I can understand it a little more if it's 3rd party. Of course, I prefer to write all that stuff myself if I'm concerned about security and the like, but then again you'll find plenty of other people's JS in my projects ... so ... :eek:

[NogDog]

Besides, don't think of it as a directory, but as a file name prefix with a slash delimiter. 🙂

Or maybe as a namespace? 😃

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp;11064203 wrote:

I can understand it a little more if it's 3rd party. Of course, I prefer to write all that stuff myself if I'm concerned about security and the like, but then again you'll find plenty of other people's JS in my projects ... so ... :eek:

Well the idea I have involves a lot of address, would you really want to sit and manually type in every address there is? 😃

[dalecosp]

cluelessPHP;11064219 wrote:

Well the idea I have involves a lot of address, would you really want to sit and manually type in every address there is? 😃

Oh, I'd love to, but right now I'm really tied up typing up all the titles, prices, descriptions, etc. for the 150K products on our site. And after that I have to draw the pictures, so I'm busy at least until the week after I die ... 🙂 😃 :rolleyes:

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp;11064231 wrote:

Oh, I'd love to, but right now I'm really tied up typing up all the titles, prices, descriptions, etc. for the 150K products on our site. And after that I have to draw the pictures, so I'm busy at least until the week after I die ... 🙂 😃 :rolleyes:

Looks like someone didn't read the small print of his contract, death is prohibited until project is complete