Question

I just updated from php 5.3.4 to 5.3.8. After the update it seems that all my code that includes try{ causes my page to hang and use up all my server memory.

if(preg_match('/^(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}$/', $ip)){
$xml = @file_get_contents('http://' . $this->service . '/' . $this->version . '/' . $name . '/?key=' . $this->apiKey . '&ip=' . $ip . '&format=xml');
try{
$response = @new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

foreach($response as $field=>$value){
$result[(string)$field] = (string)$value; }
return $result;
}
catch(Exception $e){ $this->errors[] = $e->getMessage();
return;
}
}

This also causes a major issues

<?php

try{
$gt = new Gtranslate;
$gt->setRequestType('curl');

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM PAGE_CONTENT WHERE live_page = '1'";
$result = mysql_query( $SQL );
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) {
$page_id_sub = $row["page_id"];
$page_title = $row["page_title"];
$page_permalink = $row["page_permalink"];

if(empty($mylang)){
echo "<a href='/$permalink/$page_permalink.html'>$page_title</a> |";
}
else {
$page_trans = $gt->$mylang("$page_title");
echo "<a href='/$permalink/$page_permalink.html'>$page_trans</a> |";
}
}
}
catch (GTranslateException $ge){
echo $ge->getMessage();
}
?>

Answer 1

This probably has very little to do with try and much more to do with your remote requests (i.e. file_get_contents() and $gt->$mylang()).

As a benchmark, remove those lines and see how your page performs. If they are indeed the culprit, you may want to consider caching their response or some other approach so your not making the request on every page load.