Thanks to those who responded. So it looks like there was *not* a memory issue after all :(. I had hit an error, assumed it was memory related and when I tried to do set the "memory_limit" higher essentially became fixated. So from what I can tell (and this *is* an assumption) it looks like the binary install of MySQL for windoze is built with the memory_limit disabled - which means that PHP will be allowed to use whatever memory the OS wants to give it during it's invocation. I'm not sure what the root problem I had was - since this morning it all just went away :(. Whatever.
Thanks,
Dan
Sorry if this is considered off-topic - but I've been trying to get some Drupal (4.6) work done and have been beating my head against this all day -
I'm having a wierd problem. I'm setting up my laptop (winxp home) to do some dev. work - I have previously installed apache 1.x and PHP 4.3.10. I can't get the "memory_limit" ini setting to "take". It is clearly (and I believe correctly) set in my ini file -
memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)
Which is the default when you set up PHP. When I do a phpinfo() it simply doesn't report anything - doesn't show up. Other variables can be set in that ini file and they do show up.
I have tried to manually set it but that doesn't work. I try this:
print "here I am: ".ini_get('memory_limit')."</br>"; print "here I am: max size: ".ini_get('post_max_size');
and I can see post_max_size but not memory_limit. I have tried with both the cgi and dll flavors of PHP. I deeply suspect a stupid MS trick. HELP!
Needless to say everything is working fine in linux land - I just got done there in 2 minutes what I have spent all day doing so far - but I would like to be able to work on my laptop (no jokes about installing linux on my laptop please - I've had enough today already).
Thanks in adavance,
Dan