PHP Project Organisation and Deployment (FuelPHP)

Question

This project is using the FuelPHP framework but the question is around organisation of files.

My file structure is as follows:

/fuel
   /app
      /assets
      ...
/public

I current have assets.mydomain.com pointing to /fuel/app/assets but where would I place user content files such as profile pictures, etc.

In terms of deployment, I have never deployed a project like this before and I need some way of automating it, (using rsync or something). I wondered if anyone could recommend a way I can do this without wiping user files.

Answer 1

As suggested, I kept the assets directory under public. User content is stored in the media directory:

/public
    /assets
    /media

Regarding deployment, I use a simple git workflow: I have a bare git repo on my target server and a post-receive hook that checkout the branch in the working directory under my docroot. To deploy, I just push from my local repo to the bare remote.

More details here: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto