Drupal system requirements: past, present and future Jeremy Epstein 18 May 2008
Drupal is built on the shoulders of giants
PHP dying? gophp5.org PHP4 end of life: no more feature releases since end of 2007 No more security releases after 8 Aug 2008 <? ?>
WhenPastPresentFuture Drupal5.x6.x7.x PHP Version >= >= 5.2.0
Proper OO SimpleXML PDO
MySQL: “the Drupal database” Lacking in features Postgres: neglected sibling More robust Others: experimental support at best SELECT * FROM {databases} WHERE name IN(
WhenPastPresentFuture Drupal5.x6.x7.x MySQL Version >= 4.1>= 4.1.1>= 5.0
Drupal 7 will let you hammer in any old DBMS
When the blocks fit together, anything is possible