Drupal states on it’s site that it doesn’t support PHP 5.3. And, if you attempt to install drupal on a server running PHP 5.3 you get a lovely series of errors along the lines of “Function ereg() is deprecated in…” and so on. This was a bit troublesome consider my development environment is XAMPP and it happens to be using version 5.3. Luckily, there’s a way to “hack” the drupal version 6.x to get it to work.

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