Is there a direct way to figure out what version of Moodle a site is running without logging in or seeing the source code?
I have a very simple script at http://vidberg.com/checkmoodle which I created to analyze a given URL but I was wondering if there is an easier way?
Well this is interesting. How does it work? I looked at the source code (not that I can understand it) and saw it "check php"but I can't imagine knowing the php version would be enough. I see that it identifies the major version of 1.9 but not minor versions. It identified some 2.2s I entered in - I didn't have any 2.0 or 2.1 to try but I noticed it says "unknown" for 2.3 Moodles.
I just added in checking for Moodle 2.3, so it should recognize it as well now. I won't tell how I'm figuring it out, I want to see if anyone can figure it out... but it really isn't too complicated (and not really that accurate as you can tell).
Your code is hunting around for the TinyMCE version so that must somehow give away the Moodle being used.....
Yes, you are correct. Each major release of Moodle uses a set of different versions of Tinymce so my code is looking for existence of certain tinymce files to see which matches the "fingerprint" of the moodle version found at the given URL.
I got an email requesting that I do not make this tool publically accessible so it has been pw protected. Sorry.
