Problems installing Joomla

Question

When trying to run a joomla website I am giving a long list of the following strict standards erros(the list is like a hundred lines long:

Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in C:\xampp\htdocs\website\libraries\joomla\import.php on line 29

In php.ini error_reporting is set to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE and that does not help.

Joomla version is very outdated - 1.5.18 and php version is 5.4.7

Answer 1

In Joomla's configuration.php file, change $error_reporting value to 6135.

If this doesnt help you can add these lines to your .htaccess file:

php_flag display_startup_errors off
php_flag display_errors off
php_flag html_errors off
php_value docref_root 0
php_value docref_ext 0

But i do not recommend this method as it's hiding errors completely

Answer 2

Joomla 1.5 supports PHP 4, it's going to have a ton of strict errors with php 5.3+. As suggested above you can simply change you error reporting level not to show them, you can go back down a version or two of php like to 5.2.x or you can migrate to a currently supported version of Joomla.