Joomla! Documentation™

Defined in

libraries/joomla/installer/helper.php

Methods

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

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.installer.helper' );