[support] Drupal 7. Memory error, other questions.

[Ms. Nancy Wichmann]

Jorge, you need to find the "memory_limit" setting in your php.ini or 
settings.php file and set it way up. I run with 128M; you have 32M, which is not 
enough with even a small number of modules.
 
Nancy
 
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From: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com>
To: support at drupal.org
Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 12:07:46 AM
Subject: [support] Drupal 7. Memory error, other questions.

Hello all.

I continue with my learning of Drupal 7. I have been constructing a site, simple 
one I guess and I guess I am doing fine. I have some questions about what would 
be the good way to do it Drupal Way. I have ideas but not sure. Thanks in 
advance for all your time and help.

1) I am starting receiving this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 
545020 bytes) in /home/mytestsite/public_html/includes/form.inc on line 3678

Is this a PHP configuration error? I mean an error to change the memory for PHP 
, Right? or one for Drupal? I was checking the files in Drupal but I can not 
find the one to change. The error appears once in a while and always when I am 
in Administrative mode.



2) For my learning exercises I created 2 scenarios. 
  a) One where there are LOT of small notes, divided in 4 groups. This is a site 
where I have collected motivational sentences or stories, all text. NO users are 
allowed to enter new ones, just comments after validation. Nothing fancy in 
images, the simplest the best but able to have a good image for the user.

  b) Another similar but this one will have a section where people can post 
anonymously . Imagine that this section is where people describe their 
experiences, fears, etc. Of course would be validated but people won't need to 
register to do it. This one also need a forum, simple but strong, stable, lot of 
comments from registered users.

I have planed to do the simple one and then use the second one after the 
experience of the first one.

Questions.

From 1).
- I guess the error it is from PHP. I just want to be sure since I have to ask 
my ISP to do that change, I am not sure if I have access to that file or has to 
ask them (and pay for it for doing the change).

From 2) 

a) On your experience using it , what's the best option on a theme to use? ON my 
testing marinelli is doing fine but for this exercise is too fancy . I want 
something less graphical.

b) Do you think I can use a forum block or there is maybe a simpler module for 
something that let people to post anonymously?

c) Since both sites will have LOT of post under 4 main categories. Inside each 
category there are some sub-categories and a third level inside.. 3 Levels.
What's the best way to do this. I mean have menus that gave me the main, sub and 
sub sub categories while user select them BUT That once selected only ALL the 
post from that category-sub-third level appear? Maybe this sound too stupid but 
I just can not do it yet with Marinelli theme. I mean, that if I select any 
third level menu that points me only to all the related information that when 
created where cataloged under that menu only.



3) Something that confuse me a little when reading the documentation in general 
is that mentions that "this or that" is now part of the core in Drupal 7. For 
those of us new t Drupal there is no prior experience. Reading today how to 
solve the last question I guess can be done with views and documentation but 
since it says that almost all is included in Drupal 7. I am confused. For those 
with no previous experience with Drupal, what's the best way to study what's now 
included and how it is supposed to work?


4) Finally (I am sorry for the long message). After I finished my exercises I 
GUESS I am ready to do some simple solutions. Then I would like to learn how to 
include my own need but under the framework of drupal and the themes. For 
example I would like to be able to include maybe special formats that show 
information , let say of sales from a group of salesmen. I mean , that we can 
use all the tools for validation of users, post, controls, etc, etc but that 
also can work with information from other systems? I know this will take time 
but I would like to learn the core, how interact with it, themes, etc. Besides 
the documentation from the site, any other suggestion? 


If possible you experts, can share what wah the method you used to learn? 

Mine is to learn do simple things without modifying anything. Do all with all 
the tools, themes, modules, etc and I am sure it can be done LOT of good things 
(I have been studying other sites to see what they have done. Even when I do not 
know what they do or how they did it I am sure some do it only with the tools 
available. Then my step is to start trying to include information form other 
Mysql database . So I will study the structure of the database so I can have the 
same structure of permissions mainly.

Thanks in advance for all your comments and again I am sorry in advance for the 
long post.

Jorge Biquez
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