[support] Fed up with Drupal 7 Fatal error: Desperately, need help

[Roger]

Hi Idan
Thank you for jumping in, much appreciated.
In answer to your query, I have a series of bulletins in both pdf and 
png named as  'Bulletin January 2010', 'Bulletin March 2010' through to 
Bulletin January 2014. 3 per year, maximum of 150kb each.

I need to display all of the bulletins including future versions as png 
images 350px x 500px approx., in chronological order on a bulletins 
page. It's a sort of historical record, accessed by member log-in.
PDF display is not required.

I can create a view that displays all of the images in the /images 
folder, including the Bulletins if they are in the images folder, and 
not have memory issues but cannot get it to access or display images in 
folders within the /images folder or folders outside the /images folder.

Strange thing is that - If I could create a new content type, I could 
have a number of blocks on that content type page and display all the 
bulletin images within those, - easy as, no brainer. But it's not 
dynamic and has to be manually changed as new bulletins arrive.


The php Fatal memory issue is not related to the above.
Instead it relates to Drupal displaying the [Create Content Type] 
Administration page and it is my feeling that Drupal devs could bite the 
bullet and build in counter measures for this recurrent php fault. Like 
reducing the memory requirement for  Creating Content Types, which after 
all is just another creation page like creating new Taxonomy , Views, 
Rules, People, Workbench, Blocks, etc but for some reason Create New 
Content Type frightens php out of it's wits so it hides quivering under 
the Fatal: bed.

As was pointed out  by John in reply #6 it's got to be a php problem due 
to upgrading and seems to have been through previous upgrades judging by 
the number of Google pages on the subject. I believe it has never been 
attended to.
Yes I have set memory_limit in php.ini, and I have changed /settings.php 
in Drupal and these seemed to solve the problem until my Fedora 18 
upgraded php from 5.3 to 5.4 a week or so ago. So in deference, it is 
not my machine or it's settings or the remote server but exclusively a 
php dev testing failure prior to release.

I am looking into Centos 6.4 as was recommended by John but that's not 
an immediate fix, 5-6 hours to download is beyond my internet capability.

Roger
> just jumping in here....Can you explain what you're trying to achive, why
> are you trying to access the images directly? have you increase the memory
> limit in the php settings?
>
> Idan
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Roger<arelem at bigpond.com>  wrote:
>
>> >
>>> > ><snip> My heart just sank into oblivion.
>>> > >I am sooooo sad and fed up with the latest and incessant: Fatal error:
>>> > >Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
>>> > >9331811 bytes) in ...... </snip>
>> >Hi again.
>> >Ok so I can't create a content type due to Fatal error messages, but
>> >maybe I can make a view and display that in an existing page or block.
>> >Problem is I have png images in a number of directories in the
>> >/defaults/files/images/Seminar database.
>> >Images are png and jpg.
>> >I have no idea how to tell a view how to get images from certain
>> >directories.
>> >For some reason the view I create gets images only from the /images
>> >directory and no other. I could not even figure out how to filter on
>> >directory names.
>> >If it can be solved how to get only png images from different
>> >directories  /images/Seminar/2011, /2012, /2013, /2014 file tree this
>> >would be of great assistance and maybe bail me out temporarily.
>> >
>> >Thank you for any assistance, it will be greatly appreciated.
>> >Roger
>> >--