Manifesto Directory Structure

This guide merely provides an overview of the files and directories to be found in Manifesto website installation.

At the root level, there are only 3 PHP files significant to flow:

_media_browser.php
   The popup window for media selection used by the editor
_link_browser.php
   The popup window for link creation used by the editor
index.php
   The default index script page

The first two provide popup windows for Manifesto’s WYSIWYG editor. The index.php page receives and parses all page requests, and includes the appropriate templates needed to respond to the request. It contains no actual HTML markup, all of which belongs in the page_layout and other templates.

Additional files:

.htaccess
   The default .htacces file, similar to the one used by WordPress, etc.
prep.inc
   This is the initialization script the prepares the environment, parses the request URL, etc.
robots.txt
   The standard robots.txt text, specify which files robots may access

Directories:

docs
   The junk drawer directory, containing notes, license, documentation, etc
locale
       Storage for locale-specific translation files (deprecated)
logs
       Various site log files, and database backups (by default)
mods
       Core and Base modules live in here. Described in more detail below.
site
       All implementation-specific files go in here. The /site/ directory may contain its own /mods/ directory, containing modules specific to this site, and may have one or more alternate *Themes*, allowing limitless overrides of any of the templates available on the site.
tests
       Unit and feature tests
themes
       Default Manifesto theme, overridden by /site/theme/ version
vendor
       Third-party software libraries

In theory, you should never modify any files outside of the /site/ directory, because all of those files belong to the core Manifesto package, and may be overwritten the next time the software is upgraded.

Each module is a directory containing one or more sub-directories that house all the classes, templates, and addtional files to provide the module’s functionality.

Module Directory:

module_prep.inc
   This file handles additonal preparation specific to the module, which occurs before any module-specific templates have been loaded
controller.inc
   This acts like a module-specific controller file, routing page requests based on function to the appropriate templates and scripts
admin_includes/
   Optional scripts used in the Site Management interface
classes/
   Directory containing Class definition files
cronjobs/
   Contains any moudle-specific scripts run on a schedule
editor_includes/
   Optional script used for functionality in the Editorial interface
js/
   Contains any moudle-specific javascripts to be attached to views
includes/
       All view templates, search functionality, sitemap hinting scripts, etc for the module
styles/
       Module-specific CSS files