need help: some advices about webroot structure and organization

[Francesco]

Hi there!
I'm trying to organize my sources into a webroot tree like this,

webroot
index.htm - only contains index.php into a frame
index.php - require_once('inc/layout.php')

home
page1.php - require_once('../inc/layout.php')
page2.php - require_once('../inc/layout.php')
page3.php - require_once('../inc/layout.php')

inc
config.php
layout.php - require_once('redirect.php')
redirect.php - require_once('config.php')
config.php
contains all the settings... the list of pages and other stuff.

layout.php
is the layout used to draw pages.

redirect.php
contains the functions that I use to browse the site.

I have some questions for yoy:

1. is that a good way to structure the site?

2. what about the require_once function?
I mean is it safe to use relative path?

3.What would be te best strategy to manage this structure?

Thanks in advance for your precious help!
Francesco

[Francesco]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

And you're getting responses in that thread. Please don't post the same
problem in more than one thread.

oh, i'm sorry for that...

>>
My init

>>scripts defines some constants, so it's very easy and convenient to load
files from my different paths.

Do you call init in the index.php page?

I do the same. I just include the script to get system-defined values.

Thanks for your help!

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Francesco)

>Michael Fesser wrote:

>1) Why frames?

What's wrong with frames?

A lot. "Frames are evil" - you can find a lot of stuff about this topic
on Google and in other web authoring newsgroups.

In short: Frames cause a lot of accessibility and usability problems,
but don't provide real benefits. There are some very rare cases where
frames can be useful, but for most "normal" websites they're not.

>What would be the right way?

No frames, just plain pages.

>My init
scripts defines some constants, so it's very easy and convenient to load
files from my different paths.

Do you call init in the index.php page?

It's a bit more complicated here (all page requests are handled by a
single script), but yes, more or less it's like that. On every request
the init script is called/included to setup some important constants for
the other scripts, which will then handle the request.

Micha