Organizing files of a website powered by PHP, Smarty, JavaScript, MySQL

Question

I am writing an web application powered by PHP, Smarty, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL.

There will be some classes, which will be used through out the application. There wi

Answer 1

A very basic folder layout:

root
 |
 |- htdocs       # apache documentroot (i.e. index.php etc.) here
 |   |
 |   |- styles   # css here
 |   |
 |   |- images
 |
 |- application  # classes etc. here
 |
 |- vendor
 |   |
 |   |- smarty   # smarty library files

Answer 2

Here are two good articles on PHP projects using Smarty and how to setup the file structure for them:

http://codepoets.co.uk/php5_application_directory_structure_ruby_on_rails

http://www.edit-x.com/editx-support-articles.php?s=&c=21&d=48&e=&f=&g=&a=11122&w=2

Answer 3

Just remember PHP libraries and template files should not be directly accessible over the web server.

You can make class names like My_Db_Table and load them with __autoload.

/project
- /config
- /html
- - /css
- - /images
- - /js
- - /subdirs for php files unless you use apache mod_rewrite or similar
- - index.php
- - otherfiles.php
- /lib
- - /My
- - - /Db
- - - - Table.php
- /templates
- /functions
- /scripts