How to manage and organize the web application in appropriate way

[Katyayani]

Hi guys
I am a small time developer and I need a bit help from you guys . Actually the thing is I need to know how can I structure my web directory in a correct way so there I wont find any trouble . now my way of work is that the main page goes to the root directory and the included file stays in the include folder . but I think that is little bit messed up and don’t know what to do. The way I structure the file is

<?php include "includes/includes.php";?>
<?php include "includes/header.php";?>
Body
<?php include "includes/footer.php";?>

So guys what do you suggest for this . is the any way to make it simple , the structure in general plus in queries.php I would be really appreciating this thanks in advance

[Brunon]

If you ask me, I myself working on the project and use nearly about hundred of PHP files which I think will reach about thousands of file at the end of the works and this all time I just used the include just two or three times . for me the most important thing is __autoload function . this function allow you to write the class name as a argument and you write logic to include the appropriate file containing that class

With having all the code in the class , naming the file with the class after that the namespacing the classes to equal the folder structure and this becomes a very unimportant procedure .i will advise you to make use of the the absolute path in place of the relative path. And if you familiar with the relative path on the root of folder of your site, then you can familiar with the absolute path by adding with the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] I hope this will help you

[Capulet]

This is how the autoloading looks like

/root
    /App
        /Page
            Standard.php
            Advanced.php
        Application.php
        Page.php
        User.php 

Autoloading works on the Object oriented based system , see th e Zend Framework you will get the idea of how this works better as it the lot of information on this .