Using a PSR-0 Directory Structure

Your application is growing and there's too many files in the few directories Laravel initially provides.

First edit composer.json and update the autoload section.

{
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "MyApp": "app/"
        },
        "classmap": [
            "app/commands",
            "app/database/migrations"
            "app/database/seeds",
            "app/tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    }
}

Here you should remove any directories you will no longer be using from the "classmap" section and add the "psr-0" section specifying your application name.

Then regenerate the autoload files.

$ composer dump-auto

That's it, now you can use namespaces and build a hierarchy of classes.

Let's say you have a controller for the above app to handle miscellaneous pages. You might have a file in app/MyApp/Controllers named MiscController.php. This file would look something like.

<?php namespace MyApp\Controllers;
class MiscController extends \Controller {
    // methods go here
}
?>

Line 1

Here you're establishing the namespace.

Line 3

And you're naming the class MiscController. You'll be able to access this class anywhere in your application using the full MyApp\Commands\MiscController namespace.

The nice thing about PSR-0 is the question "Where do I put my code?" becomes "How do I want to organize my classes?"