By lucytosh on

Hello, I installed some Image modules, and I get this error message in reports:
It is highly recommended that you set you PHP memory_limit to 96M to use ImageAPI GD. A 1600x1200 images consumes ~45M of memory when decompressed and there are instances where ImageAPI GD is operating on two decompressed images at once.
I searched all directories.. but I don't seem to find the right file... I have drupal installed in local on xampp. should I go searching through phpMyAdmin..? where else? I hope someone already solved this one..... thanks for any suggestion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

You can increase php memory_limit in many ways (http://drupal.org/node/207036).

If you are looking for the php.ini file, upload a script containing a <?php phpinfo() ?> line and browse to it, and it will tell you where it is.

brianpthomas’s picture

brianpthomas commented

put this line of code in your .htaccess file and it should work fine.

php_value memory_limit 96M

alanom’s picture

alanom commented

Old thread but a perennial problem. There's now a good workaround for this if you're having problems due to very large image uploads.

max_image_size module https://www.drupal.org/project/max_image_size resizes the original image if it's over a certain size, before any image style manipulation happens.

So, instead of having problems where multiple image style filters are being applied to a 5mb image file repeatedly for every image style, the 5mb image is reduced to a (still high quality) 1mb file or similar, then the image style effects are applied to that. Much more memory efficient.