Zip it up and install your component

Since we built this component directly on your site, you can already use it, but you will probably want to be able to distribute this component to other people and allow them to install it on their websites. Create a new folder on your desktop called com_folio_v1.0.0, and copy into this the following files:

  • /administrator/components/com_folio/folio.xml
  • /administrator/components/com_folio/index.html
  • /administrator/components/com_folio/script.php

Also create the folders admin and site.

Copy into the site folder an index.html file. We haven't built a frontend to our component yet.

Copy into the admin folder the entire contents of /administrator/components/com_folio/ including all files and folders, but exclude folio.xml ...

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