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# Cascading Filesystem
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The Kohana filesystem is a heirarchy of directory structure. When a file is
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loaded by [Kohana::find_file], it is searched in the following order:
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Application Path
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: Defined as `APPPATH` in `index.php`. The default value is `application`.
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Module Paths
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: This is set as an associative array using [Kohana::modules] in `APPPATH/bootstrap.php`.
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Each of the values of the array will be searched in the order that the modules
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are added.
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System Path
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: Defined as `SYSPATH` in `index.php`. The default value is `system`. All of the
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main or "core" files and classes are defined here.
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Files that are in directories higher up the include path order take precedence
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over files of the same name lower down the order, which makes it is possible to
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overload any file by placing a file with the same name in a "higher" directory:
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If you have a view file called `welcome.php` in the `APPPATH/views` and
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`SYSPATH/views` directories, the one in application will be returned when
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`welcome.php` is loaded because it is at the top of the filesystem.
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## Types of Files
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The top level directories of the application, module, and system paths has the following
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default directories:
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classes/
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: All classes that you want to [autoload](using.autoloading) should be stored here.
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This includes controllers, models, and all other classes. All classes must
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follow the [class naming conventions](about.conventions#classes).
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config/
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: Configuration files return an associative array of options that can be
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loaded using [Kohana::config]. See [config usage](using.configuration) for
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more information.
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i18n/
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: Translation files return an associative array of strings. Translation is
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done using the `__()` method. To translate "Hello, world!" into Spanish,
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you would call `__('Hello, world!')` with [I18n::$lang] set to "es-es".
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See [translation usage](using.translation) for more information.
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messages/
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: Message files return an associative array of strings that can be loaded
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using [Kohana::message]. Messages and i18n files differ in that messages
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are not translated, but always written in the default language and referred
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to by a single key. See [message usage](using.messages) for more information.
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views/
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: Views are plain PHP files which are used to generate HTML or other output. The view file is
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loaded into a [View] object and assigned variables, which it then converts
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into an HTML fragment. Multiple views can be used within each other.
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See [view usage](usings.views) for more information.
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## Finding Files
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The path to any file within the filesystem can be found by calling [Kohana::find_file]:
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// Find the full path to "classes/cookie.php"
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$path = Kohana::find_file('classes', 'cookie');
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// Find the full path to "views/user/login.php"
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$path = Kohana::find_file('views', 'user/login');
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# Vendor Extensions
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We call extensions that are not specific to Kohana "vendor" extensions.
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For example, if you wanted to use [DOMPDF](http://code.google.com/p/dompdf),
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you would copy it to `application/vendor/dompdf` and include the DOMPDF
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autoloading class:
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require Kohana::find_file('vendor', 'dompdf/dompdf/dompdf_config.inc');
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Now you can use DOMPDF without loading any more files:
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$pdf = new DOMPDF;
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[!!] If you want to convert views into PDFs using DOMPDF, try the
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[PDFView](http://github.com/shadowhand/pdfview) module.
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