Including Drupal Version in Posts?
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pastordavid - Fri, 2007-12-14 17:25
Is there a way to strongly encourage posters to include the Drupal version to which they refer in their posts?
Even better would be to also include the PHP and MySql versions as well since all three impact one another in terms of available features and performance.
I am a Drupal-in-Diapers user ... uber-newbie if you will ... and this need for Blog/Forum clarity is hardly limited to Drupal, it is a general challenge when trying to filter the relevance of technology-related discussions online.
e.g. I am learning/using Drupal 5.3 with PHP4x and MySql 4x (temporary server limit soon to be overcome). Posts re. Drupal 4.x are probably more likely to confuse than enlighten me so I would prefer to avoid reading them.
Just thought I'd ask ...
Posting server software
Posting server software versions is generally not necessary. They will rarely affect Drupal in any way - at least until Drupal 7 when they start actually using some PHP5-only features.
So far as Drupal 4 versus 5... you can assume with almost 100% certainty that whenever someone here discusses Drupal with you, they are referring to the "current version" - which right now is 5. No one will usually say anything about Drupal 4 without qualifying that fact in their post. The version of Drupal 5 is also not really relevant. No major changes have been made between 5.0 and 5.5, only security and bug fixes. People generally will assume you have whatever the latest current version is, because that is exactly what version you should always have (or at least have the patches added manually if necessary for your situation). The Drupal community quickly moves on from previous versions, so only a minority of users are still using 4.7 (usually because they are stuck with modules that never made it to version 5, or because they edited Drupal core with custom code and can't upgrade it to version 5).
As usual, I recommend you install WAMP or XXAMP on your computer, and use that to install and learn Drupal. Here is a full listing of many Windows WAMPs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs
It really is as easy as running the installer, pasting your Drupal files in the web directory (depending on the program, could be www, htdocs, or something like that - the program will tell you), and going to http://localhost/drupal (drupal or whatever directory name), and you'll see the site running right off your own computer. Most WAMPs come with phpMyAdmin, a common tool for managing MySQL (not as easy as CPanel, but not hard).