Where is the best place to store Yii2 search models?

Question

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Good afternoon! A question about the structure of a basic application, it’s more competent to store search models in the models folder with the main application models, or else move them to a separate directory, let’s say to the root of the application, so that when their number grows, you don’t get porridge from models

Answer 1

let's go to the root

strange idea, this is the last place where they will be looked for
either in the app/models folder or in the app/models/search folder
sometimes it is convenient to use modules to avoid porridge, but not always. But it's worth thinking about this.

Answer 2

Keep related items nearby.
Product search model next to the Product model, category search model next to the category.
It makes no sense to allocate a folder for "all" search models,
see Project structure, LIFT