Phing .xml for generating empty Magento Modules.

build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="MagentoExt" basedir="." default="MagentoExt">

  <!-- Properties -->
  <property name="module.name" value="NAMESPACE" />
  <property name="package.name" value="MODULENAME" />
  <property name="package.scope" value="local" /><!-- local/community -->

  <!-- Basic Folder and Files Structure Creation -->
  <target name="MagentoExt" description="">
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/Block" />
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/controllers" />
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/etc" />
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/Helper" />
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/Model" />
    <mkdir dir="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/sql" />

    <mkdir dir="app/etc/modules" />

    <property name="module.xmlfile" value="app/etc/modules/${module.name}_${package.name}.xml" />
    <property name="package.xmlfile" value="app/code/local/${module.name}/${package.name}/etc/config.xml" />

    <touch file="${module.xmlfile}" />
    <touch file="${package.xmlfile}" />

    <echo file="${package.xmlfile}" append="false">&lt;config&gt;
  &lt;modules&gt;
      &lt;${module.name}_${package.name}&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;0.1.0&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/${module.name}_${package.name}&gt;
  &lt;/modules&gt;
&lt;/config&gt;
    </echo>

    <echo file="${module.xmlfile}" append="false">&lt;config&gt;
  &lt;modules&gt;
      &lt;${module.name}_${package.name}&gt;
          &lt;active&gt;true&lt;/active&gt;
          &lt;codePool&gt;local&lt;/codePool&gt;
      &lt;/${module.name}_${package.name}&gt;
  &lt;/modules&gt;
&lt;/config&gt;
    </echo>

  </target>
</project>