Filesystem structure of a Horde application
This information is valid for Horde 4 and later only. See <a href="https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/FilesystemH3">Doc/Dev/FilesystemH3</a> for Horde 3.
Each Horde application has a common filesystem structure. This helps organizing the several components of the application and simplifies working with unknown applications.
These are the directories available in every Horde application:<br />
| Directory | Content |<br />
| --- | --- |<br />
| / | Base directory with the controller scripts called by the browser |<br />
| app/ | Views and controllers for MVC style apps |<br />
| bin/ | Binary and other standalone CLI scripts |<br />
| config/ | Configuration files |<br />
| docs/ | Administrator documentation |<br />
| js/ | Javascript files |<br />
| lib/ | Application-specific library files |<br />
| locale/ | Original and compiled translations; application help files |<br />
| migration/ | Setup and migration files |<br />
| templates/ | Template files |<br />
| themes/ | Themes directories |<br />
| themes/default/ | Base theme |<br />
| themes/defaults/graphics/ | Base theme icons |
Usually there are more directories, depending on the application:
- If there are many controller scripts for an application, they may be grouped into directories under the base directory.
- The lib/ directory has many levels of subdirectories. See <a href="https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/Framework">Doc/Dev/Framework</a> for details.
- The locale/ directory has a subdirectory for each locale, e.g. locale/de/ or locale/zh_TW/ if locale has multiple regions. These subdirectories contain the translated help file help.xml and the directory LC_MESSAGES/ which contains the actual, compiled translation, e.g. imp.mo and original source file, e.g. imp.po.
- The templates/ directory groups all templates for a single controller script into one subdirectory. All templates for a script called list.php are inside templates/list/ for example.
- Each <a href="https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/Themes">theme</a> has a subdirectory, e.g. themes/bluewhite/; if a theme provides its own icon set, the icons are inside a graphics/ subdirectory, e.g. themes/bluewhite/graphics/.
- Some applications have sub-sets of their icons grouped into subdirectories, e.g. themes/graphics/flags/.