Simple Invoices - Forum

hey terry

re restore
- create a new db and import the db backup into it
- point your old Simple Invoices at the restored db
- done

re memory allocation
- if the host wont change your memory limit theres not much you can do - apart from get a new host
- do you only get this when PDF and emailing?

Cheers

Justin

Hi,

I will restore the database and see how I go.

In regard to the error, I get it when I click the Edit Invoice button. My host as assigned a maximum of 16MB for a php script to run. They insist it's a reasonable amount to allocate.

Cheers,

hmm.. never seen it on edit page before

did edit work fine in the old version?

cheers

justin

Yeah, it worked fine before, only came up on the PDF and email, which I could work around. Actually, it seems to come up on every action on all the pages (billers, customers, invoices, etc)

Any ideas?

As already discuss in this forum, the memory allocation in php.ini doesn't work with a single line.

I had the problem and is solved with this php.ini content (I don't know if it works for you):

zlib.output_compression = on
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
memory_limit=-1 (this means unlimited memory)

Jos

thanks jose!!

terry - please test and let us know if this fixes the issue
-- will put up a FAQ post it if does

cheers

justin

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but I can't test this because I don't have the change rights to the php.ini file, it is controlled by the hosting company.

Sorry.

hey terry

you can also set the php.ini settings in the Simple Invoices .htaccess file

refer: http://davidwalsh.name/php-values-htaccess

let us know if that works

cheers

justin

@ terry

Like Justin said, memory allocation can be done in .htaccess also. But I have no success with .htaccess

You can create a php.ini file and send it into the root SI folder (where we have .htaccess)

This is a php.ini specific for SI and is not the "main" or global php.ini file controlled by the host company.

@Justin
This is a recent "issue". Older releases don't need this trick. What's the reason for this?

Jos

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions but I haven't had any luck. I tried all the lines as jmruas suggested as well as just the memory_limit line too with various values. No matter what I did I got the below error. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or it simply doesn't work. FYI I used the syntax specifed on the example on the davidwalsh web page.

Server error!
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.
Error 500

Any other suggestions?

Thanks


Terry

@jose

not sure why this error has started to appear ??

@terry

sorry can't think of any other at the moment :(

if anyone knows anything about this please post

cheers

justin

Terry,

An Error 500 can come from .htaccess. Try to rename the file and see the result.
If it works, try .htaccess line by line to see where in .htaccess is the problem.

Jos

thanks jose!

terry - let us know how you go

cheers

justin