How to reduce the memory my image modification script in php uses?
February 9th, 2010 | 
Author: I created a script that reduces the size of an image and another to watermark images with PHP. The code runs fine on my testing server, but when I upload it to my web host (UK2) they have a 8MB memory limit. I’m not really sure if I will have to work around this and cut it out of my CMS or whether there is anything that can be done to help?
thanks!
Posted in Geek Central | 
Tags: 8mb memory, cms, image modification, images, memory limit, php code, script php, upload, web host
You can temporarily change the memory limit for a script through the ini_set php function.
Try, <?php print_r( ini_get_all() ); ?> and find some line relating to memory limit (I can’t remember what it was named as I haven’t used PHP in a long time), then just remove the print_r line and ini_set(‘variable_name’, ‘value’); to raise the limit, e.g. 30M.