recommended file structure for PHP project

[NotionCommotion]

I for no particular reason typically use:

- myApplicationName
  - application/
    - classes/
    - components/ (from my start with Joomla, and I have a controller, model, view directory in each, however, I am thinking of moving away from)
    - includes/
    - lib/
      - js/
      - css/
      - images/
      - etc/
  - html/
    - index.php
    - lib/ (a symbolic link to ./application/lib
  - logs/
  - vendor/
  - composer.json (and lock, etc)
  - config.ini
  - httpd.conf, private.conf, etc if I include with my Apache setup.
  - readme

I've seen others that say:

- myApplicationName
  - src/
    - classes/
    - includes/
    - public/
      - index.php
    - logs/
    - vendor/
    - composer.json (and lock, etc)
    - config.ini

 Is there anything like a recommended file structure?

[requinix]

Some people like "src" because that's traditional for compiled languages. It doesn't make as much sense for PHP, and particularly not when it's the only directory at that level.

 

Otherwise you've got the gist of it: public/html should be the web-accessible assets and a PHP script or two, then most everything else lives outside there. Separate classes/includes/lib/logs is good.