Getting started

Folder Structure and Customization

Event Portal was designed so that people with basic PHP knowledge can read and change the sources. This page shows where everything lives.

Main folders

index.php                  front controller of the public website
config.php                 database settings
include/                   shared classes (database, page controller, events, payments, AI)
extensions/                one PHP file per public page (home, search, details, checkout...)
templates/modern/          the design: template.html, assets/style.css, assets/app.js
languages/                 en.php, es.php - one interface text file per language
categories/, locations/    text files with categories and places
ADMIN/                     administration panel
advertisers_admin/         organizer panel
users_admin/               attendee panel
css/, js/                  shared styles and scripts of the event form
cron.php, sitemap.php      scheduled tasks and XML sitemap

How a page is built

Every request goes through index.php. The page controller either loads a CMS page (?page=events) or an extension directly (?mod=details&id=5). The extension prints its HTML, and the template engine places it inside templates/modern/template.html together with the menu, footer and language switcher.

Changing the design

Colors, logo and headline can be changed without code in Logo and branding.
Layout and styles are in templates/modern/template.html and templates/modern/assets/style.css. Colors are CSS variables at the top of the file.
A page's content is in its file in extensions/. For example extensions/home.php is the home page.

The admin panels

In the three panels every menu item is a file named category/action.php. The menu itself is defined in pages_structure.php of each panel. To add a page, create the file and add one line to that menu file. Styles for the panels are in ADMIN/assets/modules.css and advertisers_admin/css/extra.css.

Shared classes

Class	Purpose
`DatabasePDO`	Database access (MySQL through PDO)
`PageController`, `PageModel`, `TemplateEngine`	Routing, pages and templates
`EventListing`	Searching events, tickets, orders and coupons
`PaymentGateway`	Stripe and PayPal payments

The same classes and admin layout are used by our other scripts such as the Jobs Portal, which makes it possible to combine products in one site later.

After updating the script, keep your own config.php, the languages, uploaded_images and thumbnails folders, and any template changes you made.

Last updated 1 November 2026