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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:47:53+00:00

What’s the best practice for locating external libraries in a PHP project (e.g., GoogleMapAPI,

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What’s the best practice for locating external libraries in a PHP project (e.g., GoogleMapAPI, Recaptcha, etc.)? Right now I have all classes in /lib or subdirectories thereof, and am using Zend convention for naming (e.g., class Foo sits in /lib/Foo.php, class Db_Bar sits in /lib/Db/Bar.php).

But should I segregate third-party stuff? If so, how? Where? Inside /lib? Elsewhere? Note: Autoloading of these classes is not an issue because they are always included/required explicitly where needed (unlike my own classes).

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re on the right track, putting everything in /lib. I’d suggest separating each one into its own subfolder, since many libraries will have multiple files. So have /lib/googlemaps, /lib/recaptcha and so on.

    If you’re still not sure, perhaps take a look at some frameworks like CodeIgniter. Joomla uses the system I described above. They even have /lib/joomla for the whole Joomla framework.

    There’s no need to over-think it. As long as it’s easy to find and include the libraries, don’t worry about it.

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