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As a design and hosting firm, we got sick of always trying to remember which client was on which version of Joomla! (and Mambo....we discovered we had forgotten to convert some!). So we wrote a perl script. Below is what the coder provided.

It is provided to everyone but there are no guarantees, support and you use at your own risk.

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A quick and (very) dirty perl script to find and report all your Joomla/Mambo and some Component versions and details,
either to STDOUT or via an email alert. Refer to the notes below for limitations.

STDOUT/Email Output Example:

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Mambo Version: 4.5.2.2 Stable
    Build:  Released: 02-June-2005  Codename: Titan Recoiled
    /home/user1/domains/user1.com.au/public_html/
    ===================================================================================

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Joomla! Version: 1.0.9 Stable
    Build: 3876  Released: 05 June 2006  Codename: Sunshine
    /home/user2/domains/user2.com.au/public_html/j109/
    ===================================================================================
Run via cron, once a week or so, keep track of out-of-date versions reducing the risk of older vulnerable instances being
left on servers accidentally or just to version manage your servers instances.

Notes:
  1. Older versions of Mambo will not report all variables, namely "Build" as this was not published in the older revisions.
  2. Only components that publish a "version.php" and conform to a similar format to Joomla! will report.
      (IE: VirtueMart/mambo-phpShop)
  3. There is always a chance that other applications that use "version.php" in a similar format maybe picked up also.

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  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
  GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.                                                           
                                                                                                                                     
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
  without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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Any reason this wouldn't work on a server running Perl 5.8.7? 



Cheers,
Jason

Hi Jason

I just asked the developer, he said the script should run under Perl 5.8.7 but you need to ensure Perl Modules File::Find::Rule is installed and possibly MIME::Lite.

The developer just looked at the error message you quoted and he said that it looks like the File::Find::Rule Perl Module hasn't been installed.

You probably already now this, but for those that don't, to install this Perl Module using Cpan (Command cpan install File::Find::Rule).

Hope this fixes your problem.

Cheers
Robyn

I get the same error. Unfortunatly, on a shared hosting service I can't add the perl module (though I guess I could install my own perl - but that sounds like hard work!

Great idea though!!

Gareth

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Gareth

Approach your hosting provider, they maybe willing to install the Perl Module for you. It is worth a try.

Thanks!  I'll give that a shot.

Cheers,
Jason

Your instructions worked perfectly.  GREAT OUTPUT, you just saved me a LOT of time.  Thank you so much for sharing this.

Regards,
Jason

As long as the moldule is PURE PERL... (No "C")
I've had luck installing the module on my local machine then FTPing the files to the web server in some local directory.
Just make sure you add the local directory/files to the INC path.

Thanks very much for posting your script.  It's been very helpful!

One can install a pure perl module in one's own virtual include area and then reference it directly in the application.

hello.

the txt attachement can't be accessed anylonger, would you mind copying the script content in the post?

thanks.
B.

Would be nice indeed

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I want to add an excludepath in the script can someone please help me?

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is there a way to tell if a site is running the current version? i.e. I can see this script will tell me the version but it won't tell me if its current right? Is there some way we can retrieve something from Joomla.org that tells us the current version then we can compare with that?

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