Re: Allowed memory size exhausted

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Karl DeSaulniers <karl@designdrumm.com> wrote: > Getting this error: > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 103809024 bytes exhausted (tried to > allocate 523800 bytes) in [...]/html/wp-includes/cache.php on line 113 > > It is being generated by a script that reads a excel file and then updates > a database with the new info. > I have went in and unset all arrays that were set along the way to > alleviate to no avail. Got down to 9 bytes once though. > However, my question isn't about allocating memory. I know how to do that > server side, but I want to avoid that. > > This is a simple order database with fields filled with order info. > Nothing complicated. > What I am wondering is what is the best way to avoid this memory issue > knowing there will be a lot of entries to go through. > To read each field from the spread sheet and insert individually? Read all > fields from spread sheet and then insert individually? > Any known ways of reading all and inserting all at the same time? > Suggestions? > > TIA, > Best, > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > > > To avoid memory issues, I would do each row individually, reading the file line by line, using something like fgetcsv/fgets. If you attempt the read entire file and insert, you would be a hostage to the file size of the file. Doing it line by line way avoids this issue even if you have a 10GB file.