How to organize website files?

[krow]

I've been reading different articles about the way to organize files and folders for websites. Unfortunately I don't seem to fully understand if there's something like the correct or the standard way to do it? All opinions are pretty much in the same path but I've seen they really depend on the complexity of the website, i.e. how large the contents are. Based on what I've read here's how I'm organizing my files

root   img   js   articles		topic1			 article1				   img								   index.html				   ...				   ...			 article2			 article3			 ...			 ...		topic2		topic3		...		...   img   resources	  classes	  libraries	  templates	  ...index.phpcontactus.phperror1.phperror2.php......

I'd like to know if I'm in the right direction?

[Morsusy2k]

I think this does not matter at all,you can put all the files in root without any dirs-if you can remember all the names of files. It's all up to you. I like to keep it like:

Root  images      backgrounds      icons      smileys      etc..  source      scripts      css      plugins      etc..   content      pages      etc..index.phpfavicon.icoerror.phpetc..   

[Ingolme]

There's no correct way to do it, but I do find you've misunderstood something. When you see a URL like this: http://example.com/articles/article-titlewhat's actually going on is that a PHP script is reading the URL and extracting data from it to get information from the database. There is not one file for each article.

[w3schoon]

If you are PHP developer it is best practice to use PHP framework like cakephp, codeigniter, symphony, zend framework etc. Frameworks will help you a lot not just only organizing your files and folders but also to utilize and secure your codes. Try this: http://www.phpandstuff.com/articles/top-10-reasons-why-you-should-use-a-php-framework