Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted (CodeIgniter + XML-RPC)

Question

I have a bunch of client point of sale (POS) systems that periodically send new sales data to one centralized database, which stores the data into one big database for repor

Answer 1

Rather than changing the memory_limit value in your php.ini file, if there's a part of your code that could use a lot of memory, you could remove the memory_limit before that section runs, and then replace it after.

$limit = ini_get('memory_limit');
ini_set('memory_limit', -1);
// ... do heavy stuff
ini_set('memory_limit', $limit);