joomla-extracting a component as installable?

Question

I am writing a joomla componenet but it has many folders and sql tables. I don't prefere to make the package manually. Is there any know extension to make me able to extract my component as a zip file to make it installable.

Answer 1

I'm so confused. Why would you need an extension to compile your component? By the sounds of thing, you have simply started editing a pre-made component.

You should have started with the folder and file stricture when you first started building the component.

Create 2 folders:

1. admin
2. site

Put all backend end related folder inside the admin folder, and all frontend related folders inside the site folder.

Then edit your XML file accordingly to it points to the correct folders

Answer 2

There is a third-party component: http://joomlatoys.com/index.php/toys/jtbuilder which can package the selected extensions and generate an installable archive for you.