[Mapbender-dev] motion: change file system layout

[Melchior Moos]

+1 I like the idea of a more structured filesystem.
Why not add a plugin/  directory which has the same function as the mod 
directory but contains all modules the are not shipped with mapbenders 
standard installation? This would lead (in theory) to a clear division 
between customations and core code. This would be the place where the 
<project name>_<module name> modules would be.

Christoph Baudson schrieb:
> As most of Mapbender's recent security issues stem from files being 
> unnecessarily in the http folder, I think we should move as many files 
> as possible out of that directory. Only files which are really loaded 
> via http should remain there.
>
> <motion>
>
> I motion to
>
> - move the PHP classes from /http/classes to /lib (and remove the 
> prefix "class_"). We can keep wrappers for the sake of backwards 
> compatibility (an old class file would only include a new class file).
> - move the external libraries from /http/extensions to /ext
>
> - create a folder /mod which holds a folder for each module (example: 
> /mod/mapframe1). Move files from /http/php and /http/javascripts to 
> these folders
>
> in Mapbender 2.6 (est. release date Sep 15, 2008)
> </motion>
>
> I already have a working experimental version in 
> /branches/testbaudson_dev.
>
> The rest will remain untouched now, but will be moved to the new 
> folders later on (there is no need for http/frames, http/html, 
> http/include, http/print). I'm not sure how to deal with 
> http/javascripts and http/php, maybe we should have a http/mod folder 
> as well? I'm also not sure about /http/sld.
>
> This approach also helps to
> - isolate modules from the core
> - optimize the core
> - remove deprecated modules
> - exchange modules
>
> For customizations, we recommended to add a folder /http/x_<project 
> name> in the past. This folder could be replaced by folders 
> mod/<project name>_<module name>. This would help us to integrate 
> modules developed for specific scenarios into the Mapbender generic 
> development, and also to update overwhelmingly customized Mapbenders. 
> Sustainability is the keyword.
>
> Christoph
>