Help with organising directory structure

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Silverstripe Version: 4.1

I renamed the code directory to src.

Now everything is in this one directory and it’s a little messy.

If possible, how can I arrange it so I can have some child directories in there, at least:

/controllers
/models

And still have it all work?

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Hi,

you can just create what ever directory structure you like in your src folder and move your php files to those sub directories. After doing that, just run dev/build?flush=all in your browser to make SilverStripe to rescan your php files.

That should do it :).

You can also namespace your php classes so that they contain the sub folder names that you just created, but SilverStripe doesn’t require this. It’s just a cleaner way to do namespacing especially in bigger projects. It just helps you to find the class file location if you see the class name + namespace referenced in another location.

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As @Taitava says, you can order your files in any structure within /src. Generally I tend to use the following structure:

  • model (all model classes)
  • control (all controller classes)
  • extensions (all extension classes)
  • helpers (helper/utility classes that are used by several other classes and don’t fit the above)

You can also add sub folders within these, so for example you could also have: /src/control/cms (for all PageController classes).

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@Taitava @PsychoMo

Thank you!