Question

When users upload an image to my server (Shared Server), the server shoots an error when the file has a width > 2000 pixels. It doesn’t have to do with the filesize — I can upload a 1 mb file at 2000 width and it still crashes. If I upload a 1 mb file at 1000 pixels, it works fine.

This is the error I get.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20000 bytes)

I am using SimpleImage plugin (http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/blog/resizing-images-with-php/) and CakePHP framework.

I read both PHP File Upload greater than upload_max_filesize and error and Large File Upload Errors with PHP but neither really addressed this issue.

Anyone ever come across this? Any ideas?

Answer 1

you might be hitting the memory limit…

try increasing the memory_limit directive in your “php.ini”

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or

add the following on the top of your php script,

ini_set('memory_limit', '128M');