Joomla 1.5 reviews: Templates, components, modules

This simple 3 column template with a header and 2 footer rows incorporates multiple module positions and comes with a free version of BJ Image Slider. The template is static width and no additional template parameters and does not employ Joomla chrome. In the preview of this template, we were hopeful as the addition of the image slider looked promising. But, upon install to a Joomla 1.5.15 website, the BJ image slider showed three error messages (see below) at the configuration tab, so we gave up. Additionally, the documentation that comes with the template and component are really just advertisement for their paid component, which may be wonderful, but we find that if the promo / free give away is riddled with bugs, we are not inclined to purchase anything from the developer.

*BJ Slider Component - Error message at install /

Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/xx/public_html/tests/administrator/components/com_bjimageslider/classes/photos.php on line 17 Warning: include(/home/xx/public_html/xx/administrator/components/com_bjimageslider\configuration.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xx/public_html/tests/administrator/components/com_bjimageslider/admin.bjimageslider.html.php on line 414

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/xx/public_html/tests/administrator/components/com_bjimageslider\configuration.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xx/public_html/tests/administrator/components/com_bjimageslider/admin.bjimageslider.html.php on line 414

--- Note: We did not take the time to track down the cause of these errors. set_time_limit is obviously a server issue. The other items seem related to non-existent files. We have invited the designer, or anyone who has the time to debug, to leave comments here.