What folder structure do you use?

[gram3000]

For developers and designers out there, is there any preferred folder structure used for storing images, css files, js files etc?

 

[babyboy808]

Here's mine:

/ root
   / index.php
   / elements/
      / js/    
      / css/
      / lib/      
      / images/

 

[gram3000]

Hi Babyboy808,

Looks good, my own method badly needs an update:

index.php
style.css
javascript.js
robots.txt
rss.xml
sitemap.xml
/ media (all images, pdfs etc used in the content)
/ _images (images for the template only)

 

[davkell]

It's usually something like:

root/
/ index.php
/ scripts (sub-folders if lots of files / libraries being used)
/ styles
/ resources (if anything else is being used...e.g. pdf)
/ images

 

[gram3000]

Hi Davkell,

Looks good. I'd love to see more peoples approaches to this, I was thinking there might be a preferred structure such as those used in free or wordpress templates.

 

[davkell]

I'd normally use a structure like that if I'm doing a custom Wordpress theme too - I'd generally keep all that separate to the rest of the php theme files (although if you're distributing the theme for download you can't really set it up like that, but I guess you could use a directory structure like that in the theme folder)

 

[kjt]

I generally use

root/
/ index.php
/ css
/ imgs
/ js
/ files (anything downloadable)

Also if the site is less then 10/20 pages I'd put each within their own folder like:

/ Clients / index.php
/ Contact / index.php
/ About / index.php

 

[php.allstar]

I use seperate subdomains for images, css and javascript/jquery

css.domain.com
images.domain.com
js.domain.com

Altough this results in 4 DNS lookups, this is within the acceptible range of 2 - 4 (the lower this number the better). This results in more parallel downloads, helping your pages load quicker.

As I work on Linux, I place sensitive php scripts in a directory below the root when creating my own applications, and I know most turnkey applications such as Wordpress, osCommerce etc, don't have this setup, but hey, thats how I go.