code working via apache, not on command line; how to fix

/etc/php.ini file

 memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

change the line to a higher value (have it at a safe limit though)

The setting in php.ini is currently 64M. It has been that for quite some time now, some running website have a lower local setting.
I would think that 64M would be enough to resize a small image (1024x768) to 2 smaller images than that.

then probably the time limit is hitting your script.  change the max_execution_time and the memory_limit variable accordingly.

The script crashes on the command line, there is no time limit when running a php script from the command line. The script works fine when requested via Apache, but it is a cronjob.
See: http://nl2.php.net/commandline

Also, I've verified that the script actually crashes on the lines I pointed out. Simply by putting a print-command just before and after. Only the one before is displayed.

then probably the time limit is hitting your script.  change the max_execution_time and the memory_limit variable accordingly.

apache and the command line use different php.ini files, search your computer for another one.

I can find 3 php.ini files, one of them is a backup and isn't used.
The other 2 have the memory_limit setting set to 64M and 32M; both of them I think should be enough to process a file.
Alltough it could be I need even more (even though the files are relatively small).

The code snippet I posted earlyer I use to increase the memory for resizing an image when accessing the script via the web, it works fine there. But when I use that code on the command line, it crashes on the marked line. Perhaps that points to a problem ??

how do you know it's due to memory?

is there any error message?

I would make a copy of the apache php.ini and place it where the other one is.

I had a similar problem in the past, where the script crashed when the jpg-function was called; this was solved by increasing the memory with the function I posted earlyer.

Now I run the same code from the command line.
When I use the function to increase the memory, the function itself crashes.
When I bypass the function on the command line it crashes on the jpg-function.

The same script works fine when requested via apache.

Unfortunatly I can't simply copy the ini file over the other file, as that might impact a running system to much and may create some big problems.

As far as I know there isn't an error message, the script simply stopt. I've got an error handler in place wich sends an email when an error occurs, and I'm not getting an email.
Where and how does PHP "dump" it's error messages when run from the command line? I'll look into retrieving some error message tomorrow; if anyone has a suggestion on how to retrieve that in the mean time, please post it; saves me a lot of time.

as far as I know, it just shows it on screen.
You have many command line php apps running that could be affected that badly by replacing the PHP.ini file with the apache one?

I would try just to see if it works.

It may solve all your problems.

just make a backup first.

Yes, there are multiple processes running in the background, just trying to copy the php.ini file is not an option, this could have a big impact on those processes wich is simply not acceptable on a production server.

The other php.ini file is related to the plesk-admin-panel and is used for the secure webserver that is needed for that. So, it won't affect the command line settings.

STDERR doesn't spit out an error message as well, I redirected that output to a file, but nothing showed up.

it could be a permission problem.

trying running the command from the command line with root privs.

sudo php .....

Good suggestion, alltough the script is allready being run with root privaleges.
I should have mentioned that...

try making another php file and have it look like this.
see you get any result

<?php
echo memory_get_usage();
?>

                                              

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I added line 2 at the beginnen of the script I'm trying to fix.
It crashes on the line I added:

echo memory_get_usage();

When I comment out that line, the script continues until the problem above happens.

From the manual:
5.2.1         Compiling with --enable-memory-limit is no longer required for this function to exist.

We aren't running this PHP-version yet; perhaps that is a problem, allthough php is compiled with the parameter.
I will be looking into upgrading to a up-to-date version of PHP on monday.

if that doesn't work, tben yeah, upgrade php

Haven't had the time to look into this yet.
We're working on another problem with a database that is a little overloaded and causes a system te crash. Need to fix that first.

I'll be back! don't worry!

Function works like a charm, I can get the memory usage at the moment.

Turns out the call "ini_get('memory_limit');" also doesn't return a value.
I tried to cope with this by using setting the limit variable manually in my increase function, I even tried it setting it to 0.

But the whole script still crashes still at
$this->original_handle = imagecreatefromjpeg($this->original);

Perhaps the call "ini_set('memory_limit', $memory_limit_new . 'M');" is also not working?

I tried out a script I attached.

When I run this as root I get the following:
string(3) "64M"
string(3) "64M"

When I run this as non-root I get the following:
string(2) "8M"
string(4) "100M"

When I run this via apache I get the following:
string(3) "64M"
string(4) "100M"

Seems that I'm unable to change the memory limit when running as root.

<?php
var_dump(ini_get('memory_limit')); 
print("\r\n");
ini_set('memory_limit', '100M');
var_dump(ini_get('memory_limit')); 

                                              

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thats odd.