Merci Matthew. I really appreciate the time you spend on this mailing list.



Jason DEBORD
Limoges, France

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
<[email protected]> wrote:
> -- Jason DeBord <[email protected]> wrote
> (on Friday, 13 February 2009, 07:06 PM +0100):
>> Directory Structure
>>
>> Project
>>
>>   Application
>>     controllers
>>     views
>>     models
>>     layouts
>>     forms
>>
>>   Library
>>     symlink to Zend
>>
>>   public_html
>>
>> So I set my include path to Project/library so The Framework is
>> included. I am thinking that it makes sense to put classes for the
>> database or other "model" type stuff into the models directory and
>> classes for forms in the "forms" directory.
>>
>> Questions
>>
>> 1) Does this file structure make sense?
>> 2) How are you guys setting up your directory structures?
>
> Please see the recommended directory structure proposal (which has been
> accepted):
>
>    
> http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend+Framework+Default+Project+Structure+-+Wil+Sinclair
>
> It's not much different from yours. One note is that all directories are
> lowercase typically; additionally, we call the directory simply
> "public", not "public_html".
>
>> 3) Is it correct that I will have to add include paths for any
>> directories I want to put classes in? ( models and forms in my
>> structure above )
>> 4) I don't want any more include paths than absolutely necessary,
>> right? So what is the most logical / efficient way to set this up?
>
> For now, yes, adding include_paths is the way to do this if you want to
> do autoloading. However, there's a couple new tools in the incubator
> that will be included in 1.8 which will make this easier,
> Zend_Loader_Autoloader and Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource. The latter
> class has a variant in Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader, which follows
> the recommended directory structure above, and allows you to simply
> specify a namespace prefix and base path, and automatically load
> resources as long as they follow specific conventions.
>
> You can find more information on these proposal pages:
>
>    
> http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Loader_Autoloader+-+Ralph+Schindler
>    
> http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource+-+Matthew+Weier+O'Phinney
>
> Code for both proposals is complete and tested in the incubator at this
> time.
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> Software Architect       | [email protected]
> Zend Framework           | http://framework.zend.com/
>

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