Lots of different files or a switch statement?

[seabro]

Hi all, 

 

I am a bit of a PHP rookie, never having had any training so I don't really know the best practices.

 

In the past I have made sites out of lots of different files and more recently I made a whole site in a single index.php which had lots of options in a switch statement.

 

The single file site was really messy as you can imagine.

 

What's the norm?  How do you guys find the right balance?

 

Thanks!

 

Seabro

[_EmilsM]

I mostly use seperate files with seperate directories for file types, for example, classes or functions, template. Then I can easily tell where what is and can find what I want. Another thing I do is name files according to the content, so I can tell witch file coresponds to what.

[davidannis]

I generally like to have a few common files

1. sets globals, opens db connections, etc
2. header
3. footer
4. functions that are used by multiple programs

then I have separate files and include the common ones.

[udaystrad]

People have different style for making a website, u can make it the way u want. All pages are linked together in some way. Usually people follow a common style so that their fellow patners or the next person handling it can understand the flow and that is as follows:-

 

1. Home page is named as index.php (.php extension is a page made in php, u can use any language or say file extension u want)

 

2. if u have a commom header and footer for all pages then header.php and footer.php respectively.

 

3. Pages are named after their purpose, for eg. Contact page -> contact-us.php , About Us page -> about-us.php , Terms of service -> tos.php , etc.

 

4. All images are saved in Images or Img folder, CSS files is saved in CSS folder, Javascript in js folder

 

Again u can name the files the way u want. But the above way helps everyone to understand and easily remember wer ur files are.