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Create An Extension Folder

Friday, 21 December 2007

Components, modules, plugins, languages, templates are extensions of Joomla, so I would create an extension folder and move all appropriate folders into this folder and protect it with an htaccess deny from all.
Furthermore give all modules and plugins their own folder. Templates got their own, why not modules and plugins? So far a module mod_login consists of 2 files mod_login.php and mod_login.xml in the modules folder. Move these files into a mod_login folder and things are organized better, I think.
Components are so much complicated, as they are organized in frontend and backend folder. You have to update an xml-install file, that copies every file to its proper place when you install the component. It was much simpler to have frontend and backend files together in one place: extensions/components/com_, so you have only one folder to drop into the components folder.

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