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Adds instructions on how to install the newer versions of PHP with native packages for Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions using the repositories maintainened by Ondrej Sury.
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Common Directory structure
A common question among those starting out with writing programs for the web is, "where do I put my stuff?" Over the years, this answer has consistently been "where the DocumentRoot is." Although this answer is not complete, it's a great place to start.
For security reasons, configuration files should not be accessible by a site's visitors; therefore, public scripts are kept in a public directory and private configurations and data are kept outside of that directory.
For each team, CMS, or framework one works in, a standard directory structure is used by each of those entities. However, if one is starting a project alone, knowing which filesystem structure to use can be daunting.
Paul M. Jones has done some fantastic research into common practices of tens of thousands of github projects in the realm of PHP. He has compiled a standard file and directory structure, the Standard PHP Package Skeleton, based on this research. In this directory structure, DocumentRoot should point to public/, unit tests should be in the tests/ directory, and third party libraries, as installed by composer, belong in the vendor/ directory. For other files and directories, abiding by the Standard PHP Package Skeleton will make the most sense to contributors of a project.