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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Including the Header

Posted by Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson
1,731 Points

I keep getting an error message Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 384

Whenever i try to view the project through localhost i get an error message. Not sure what's causing it so I figured I would post the question before I start completely over

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

What are you using? MAMP? WAMP? Other?

Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson
1,731 Points

Hello, I'm using WAMP. The project was working fine up until he got to the part about the header. I followed along with everything but it just not working

3 Answers

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

This has many causes, but my first check would be that I'm not getting stuck in a loop like:

<?php

function one($stuff)
{
  two($stuff);
}

function two($stuff)
{
  one($stuff);
}

or similar.

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Phillip,

You probably have a memory leak somewhere in your code. You can use Xdebug to find it.

Zeshan Ahmed
Zeshan Ahmed
13,151 Points
Zeshan Ahmed
Zeshan Ahmed
13,151 Points

This error can be occurred if the memory requirement exceeds 8 MB. Try following method: in the file /wp_admin/install.php, add the following line of code immediately after the code <?php at the top:

ini_set("memory_limit","32M");

hope this helps. :)