1. Drupal system requirements: past, present and future Jeremy Epstein 18 May 2008

2. Drupal is built on the shoulders of giants

3. PHP dying? gophp5.org PHP4 end of life:  no more feature releases since end of 2007  No more security releases after 8 Aug 2008 <? ?>

4. WhenPastPresentFuture Drupal5.x6.x7.x PHP Version >= 4.3.5 >= 5.2.0

5. Proper OO SimpleXML PDO

6. MySQL: “the Drupal database”  Lacking in features Postgres: neglected sibling  More robust Others: experimental support at best SELECT * FROM {databases} WHERE name IN(

7. WhenPastPresentFuture Drupal5.x6.x7.x MySQL Version >= 4.1>= 4.1.1>= 5.0

8. Drupal 7 will let you hammer in any old DBMS

9. When the blocks fit together, anything is possible