How do you automatically package PHP code for Joomla! using NetBeans?

Question

Using NetBeans 8, how can I create a script to do each of these things?

• While in development of a Joomla! component, I would like to make contents of the site and admin sub-directories, go into the components and administrator/components directories respectively of the local Joomla! instance.
• Create a ZIP file containing only the files for distribution.

Answer 1

For such a scenario you should look into Phing (or even Apache Ant).

The Joomla Documentation provides some basic steps to do this in Eclipse. I am sure it can be valuable to achieve something similar in Netbeans as well.

Extension development using eclipse and phing

Joomla Ant build files

Hope this helps a bit to get you in the right direction.