ccmarsig

Not to step on any toes, but this is exactly why I brought up the 'feedback' in this forum. This forum's description is: "Let us know how we are doing and how we can improve our products and services." Yet, I personally have been told a few times that my suggestions were not appreciated and the thread closed...all while making suggestions that could help others. I think John is pointing out something that could be of benefit to IPS and this was the reason I brought up the thread because I had problems, thought I'd note it to IPS (again, following the letter of the forum) and others are having the same problem (some being able to fix it by making the same change I did...one that IMHO should be in the instructions if 5.1 and 5.2.0 are appropriate PHP environments).

Hmmm....for PHP5, it was 8MB, php 5.2 it was 16MB...*PAST* 5.2 is now 128...which is just fricken nutso for an interpreted language like PHP... The requirements specifically state PHP 5.1 or greater...recommended 5.2. Again, 5.2.0 is listed as a recommended (and default) 16MB.

I'm thinking this might need to be discussed as I've seen a few others with this problem... There should be a mention in the requirements / install guide talking about the memory requirements for PHP. for years I had the PHP mem limit set at 16Megs and never a problem...lots of custom programming on my own and otherwise...for the new release of IPB, I kept getting blank pages, and finally traced it down to Allowed Memory Usage Exhausted errors. Once I figured out it was in PHP and not just a bug in the software, it was a relatively easy fix...changed : memory_limit = 16M ; to : memory_limit = 24M ; in my php.ini file and restarted httpd. It'd be nice if the requirements guide or the install talked about this somewhere...for someone without PHP experience, this might have been pretty hard to figure out...yet a simple fix once ya know what to do!