Joomla! Documentation™

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Defined in

libraries/joomla/installer/helper.php

• see source code in BitBucket

Subpackage

Installer

Methods

Method name	Description
cleanupInstall	Clean up temporary uploaded package and unpacked extension.
detectType	Method to detect the extension type from a package directory.
downloadPackage	Downloads a package.
getFilenameFromURL	Gets a file name out of a url.
splitSql	Splits contents of a sql file into array of discreet queries queries need to be delimited with end of statement marker ';'.
unpack	Unpacks a file and verifies it as a Joomla element package Supports .gz .tar .tar.gz and .zip.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.installer.helper' );

See also

• JInstallerHelper source code in BitBucket
• Other versions of this class

Examples

<CodeExamplesForm />