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I’ve created a photo gallery for my site using a channel and some custom channel fields. Everything was going fine till I decided to upload the rest of the 200 photos into the channel (each as a separate entry). I had about 40 photos in the channel when I did my testing. I’m using ce image resizer to resize the images on the page. Now that I have all of the photos uploaded, the page won’t load if I have the limit on the channel entries loop set any higher than 16 photos. I know it’s the ce image resizer that’s failing, but I don’t know why because there are no errors being output to the page. I checked my log file and there are no errors showing up there either. I went through the ce files and uncommented all the lines that turned on error reporting. Still no errors showing. I also set $debug = 1; and turned template debugging on. Does anyone know why errors wouldn’t show?  I assume it’s some kind of memory error, but it’s strange that it errors at only 20 entries when I used to have 40 displaying with no problem.

Hi bitsculptor,

Having worked with CE Image before, it is certainly a memory error. Do you know what your PHP memory limit is at the moment? Can you double it and see what the effect is?

I assume it’s some kind of memory error, but it’s strange that it errors at only 20 entries when I used to have 40 displaying with no problem.

When you had the limit higher, were you doing *less* with CE Image? Have you added any other plugins to your template? Have you enabled CE’s caching?

Have you contacted Causing Effect for support as well?

I look forward to your reply!

Cheers,

for some reason, nothing I do seems to change the memory limit. I tried setting the memory limit via ini_set() but to no avail. I don’t have permissions to modify the php.ini file.

My solution was to get a batch image resizer on my local machine and resize all the images to as small a size as possible.

Now all my images are manageable for CE to resize, and if the user uploads a larger image, CE can handle 1 or 2 at a time. I thought 32MB was enough… but apparently large photos take a great deal of memory.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Hi bitsculptor,

I’m glad to see you found a workaround.

I thought 32MB was enough… but apparently large photos take a great deal of memory.

Indeed, on the site I referenced, we ended up going to 128MB

If you ever need anything else, just let us know in a new thread!

Cheers,