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

Fri May 6 17:08:57 UTC 2011

*See http://drupal.org/node/76156 for other fixes.*

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann
<nan_wich at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> 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.
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> *Nancy*
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> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L.
> King, Jr.
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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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