Getting error messages using Joomla on XAMPP

Question

I installed Joomla 1.7 on XAMPP 1.7.4, but it's not working. It's showing me a bunch of messages like:

Strict Standards: Static function JDatabase::test() should not be abstract in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\libraries\joomla\… on line 350

Strict Standards: Accessing static property JCache::$_handler as non static in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\libraries\joomla\… on line 394

What can I do to remove those messages?

Answer 1

Put this right after define( '_JEXEC', 1 ); on index.php:

error_reporting( E_ERROR | E_PARSE | E_CORE_ERROR | E_CORE_WARNING | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_COMPILE_WARNING );

You may need to do that on your administrator folder too.