If you have read the you should have created a public directory and if you installed XAMPP by using the following XAMPP tutorial, this directory will probably be in "C:\xampp\htdocs\myapp\public". Open the "public" folder of your app and create a new file called ".htacess" using your text editor or your IDE. If you can't see the htaccess file in the public folder after creating it, open the view "tab" in the Windows Explorer and enable "File name extensions and Hidden items" by clicking the checkbox next to it.
Adding an environment variable to our htaccess
The first thing we will add to our htaccess file is the environment variable. Our app will have an environment variable which will have three possible values, the first one is "development", the second one is "testing" and the third one is "production". "development" will be the environment type we will use while developing our application. "testing" is the environment variable value we will use while testing of our application and finally "production" is application environment we will use after we have deployed our application on the production server(s).
My goal was to create a structure that is very easy to understand, flexible enough for big or small websites and not totally different from what books or other guides recommend as a "files and folders structure for a Zend Framework project" best practice.
Another goal was to create a CMS core, which has lots of modules that can be (re)-used on (multiple) other websites. Every module is designed so that it can be copied and put in another project without having to modify any file of that project. The main directory of each module contains all the files it needs to work, I has its own bootstrap, its own configuration files, its views and of course its own models.
