Alright, so I am an admittedly new user of the Drupal system, and I must say that it fits in very well with the site that I am building. I do have a bit of a problem/question though.
When I first started developing my site, I was using 4.6. As we were developing, we noticed that a lot of the stuff we wanted to do was either already implemented, or more easily availiable with 4.7, so we scrapped and started re-test-designing with 4.7.
I am a decently experienced programmer (C++, ruby, python, perl) although I have no experience with PHP. I'm sure I can pick it up pretty quick though. I also only have a few days of experience using the drupal system (the site is still being developed locally, we really aren't near the point where we could go live though).
Right now I have been having some problems getting different modules installed in 4.7 - notably og and blockbar. What I'm wondering is if you guys think it would be best to learn 4.7 and some PHP, or go back to 4.6 and still learn PHP. Also, are RSS feed database entries able to be dumped from 4.7 then used in 4.6?
I would honestly rather learn 4.7 - I would need some help with it though. I'm reading through the handbooks, but I get the feeling that I need to know more than they provide. If someone could provide some tips, or point me towards some good info on learning to develop with this system, it would be greatly appreciated. I have already gone through a good bit of the forums. . . .