errore message from online.php page

[ik7jwy]

HI,
when I go , as registered user, to the page online.php of the forum www.hamradioweb.org/forums, I get this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12 bytes) in /web/htdocs/www.hamradioweb.org/home/forums/includes/functions.php on line 1139

Thinking about a memory limit changed by the hosting provider, I contacted them and they suggested to update the PHP from 4.4.9 to 5, without any reference to the memory limit.
I'm not sure that it is pertinent to my problem. Furthermore, is VB 3.8.6 PL1 compatible with PHP 5 ?
How can I fix the problem ?

Art

[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);

[ik7jwy]

Many thanks for answer. I'll try to do what you suggested. Anyway, I noticed that the counter of the currently active users continues to increase. Until a few days ago the counter periodically returned to zero. How can you explain this?

[Steve Machol]

Sounds like more people and/or search engines are accessing your site.

The counter is not supposed to return to zero. If it was doing that before, it was from a modification.