The first step in publishing your extension is to package and upload it to the Magento Connect marketplace. For the purpose of packaging, we will choose our Foggyline_Stripe
extension that we have in Chapter 5, Building the Extension – Payment.
Packaging an extension in Magento is done directly from its administration panel, as described in the following steps:
Log in to your Magento administration panel.
From the administration panel, navigate to System | Magento Connect | Package Extensions. This will take you to the New Extension page, as shown in the following screenshot:
The Create Extension Package area of the New Extension page is made up of the following six sections:
Package info
Release info
Authors
Dependencies
Contents
Load Local Package
We start off by filling the first opened section, the Package info section, as described in the following list, where most of the fields are required: