As previously stated, PHP 5.4 and Drupal isn't the best combination. 7.22, which just came out last night, addresses some problems:
http://drupal.org/drupal-7.22-release-notes
Another thing to check is if you're running a contrib cache solution, like memcache. Make sure that is actually working, or you can have problems like this. Creating content types is pretty intensive. It does a full cache clear, including menu rebuild. If you have a bunch of modules on your installation, or even one problem module, that can start causing out of memory errors.
I've got a Drupal 7 site running with 60 contrib modules and about a dozen custom modules. I got the memory limit set to 128mb and never run out of memory. This is on CentOS6 and PHP 5.3.23. There are also countless other Drupal 7 sites running out there with no problem. But you can pretty much break anything with the wrong configurations and/or modules.
For the images, if you aren't letting Drupal manage them, then Drupal doesn't know about them. You can try overriding the output of fields in views and use some tokens to replace values, but you really aren't giving enough information here. Also, you can do custom view templates and run a bit of logic in there to grab the fields. Look under the advanced part of your view.
Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
On 4/4/2013 3:08 AM, Roger 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