Opinions sought on the best way to organise classes in PHP
- by jax
I am pretty much set on using the Java package naming convention of
com.website.app.whatever
but am unsure about the best way of doing this in PHP.
Option 1:
Create a directory structure
com/
mysite/
myapp/
encryption/
PublicKeyGenerator.class.php
Cipher.class.php
Xml/
XmlHelper.class.php
XmlResponse.class.php
Now this is how Java does it, it uses the folders to organize the heirarchy. This is however a little clumsy in PHP because there is no native support for it and when you move things around you break all includes.
Option 2
Name classes using a periods for the package, therefore sames are just like in Java but can all be in the same directory making __autoload a breeze.
classes/
com.mysite.myapp.encription.PublicKeyGenerator.class.php
com.mysite.myapp.encription.Cipher.class.php
com.mysite.myapp.xml.XmlHelper.class.php
com.mysite.myapp.xml.XmlResponse.class.php
The only real disadvantage here is that all the classes are in a single folder which might be confusing for large projects.
Opinions sought, which is the best or are there other even better options?
