[Solar-talk] Newbie Directory Structure Question

[Paul M Jones]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Michael Caplan wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  Yes I did go through the skeleton  
> application.  I'm not sure what is meant by Helper,

(Those are view helpers specific to that particular application.)

> but besides this, there are no recommendations that I can see on  
> vendor and vendor application libraries placement.

I think I understand what you're getting at.  Are you thinking in  
terms of having one directory tree for the application(s), and a  
separate directory tree for any libraries that the application(s)  
might need?  For example, assuming your vendor name is Caplan ...

     Caplan/
         Libname.php
	Libname/
             (etc)

     CaplanApp/
         Foo.php
         Foo/
             View/
             Locale/
             (etc)
         Bar.php
         Bar/
             View/
             Locale/
             (etc)

... yes?  If that's not what you had in mind, please correct me.

The recommendation, in general, is to keep both apps and libs in the  
same vendor tree.  Thus:

     Caplan/
         Libname.php
         Libname/
             (etc)
	App/
             Foo.php
             Foo/
                 View/
                 Locale/
                 (etc)
             Bar.php
             Bar/
                 View/
                 Locale/
                 (etc)

Strictly speaking, that's only a recommendation, not a requirement.   
You may have multiple projects that depend on libs from multiple  
other project name spaces ("vendor" spaces), and you may wish to go  
so far as to keep you apps in a separate project name space from your  
common libraries.

Hope this helps, please let me know if it does not.



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