Fatal Error

[Snowman872]

I'm getting a fatal error on one particular thread when I try to view it. Strangely, other threads do not seem to have this problem, although I imagine some could have this problem and I am unaware of it.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 228830 bytes) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxxxx/includes/functions.php(5571) : eval()'d code on line 50

That seems like a very large amount of memory it is trying to allocate. There's nothing real special about that thread that I am aware of.
Also, I just noticed for the first time, when I tried to search for that thread, using some search terms in that thread title, I got this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxxxxx/search.php on line 1151

I never had this problem in the past but did recently have the PHP upgraded from version 4 and MySQL upgraded to 5. The server is running Apache v1.3.41 (cgi), PHP 5.26, MySQL 5.0.51a-community. PHP memory limit is 8MB. The forum is relatively small, with about 60 users on at one time and 66,000 messages.

Assistance would be appreciated.

[Steve Machol]

Your PHP does not have enough memory allocated to it to complete this operation. Ask your host to increase the 'memory_limit' variable in php.ini to at least 32M.

To temporarily up your limits edit your includes/config.php file and add these lines right under the <?php line:

ini_set('memory_limit', 32 * 1024 * 1024);

Also, that specific error is from an add-on. But increasing the memory_limit is a good idea anyway.

[Snowman872]

Also, that specific error is from an add-on. But increasing the memory_limit is a good idea anyway.

Thanks Steve, I do have some add ons, but I really have no idea which one might be causing the problem. I looked in "functions.php" for some hints, and line 50 did not provide any clues to me. It's a comment line.

define('COOKIE_SALT', 'xxxxx');

// #############################################################################
/**
* Essentially a wrapper for the ternary operator.
*
* @deprecated Deprecated as of 3.5. Use the ternary operator.
*
* @param string Expression to be evaluated
* @param mixed Return this if the expression evaluates to true
* @param mixed Return this if the expression evaluates to false
*
* @return mixed Either the second or third parameter of this function
*/
function iif($expression, $returntrue, $returnfalse = '')
{
return ($expression ? $returntrue : $returnfalse);
}

// #############################################################################

Line 50 is below the "@ return".

[Snowman872]

The temporary fix does allow me to see the thread again. I'll have the changes made to the php.ini file.

I'd still like to find the offending add on.

[Zachery]

functions.php(5571) : eval()'d code on line 50

The error is on functions.php line 5571, and line 50 of the code in that plugin.