Hello Dev Team,
This is my first post so please don't yell at me for mentioning
something that has been mentioned before or for posting something that
may not be appropriate for this list. I am a regular poster to PostNuke
and Xaraya Dev lists and only want to better my Module :)
Also, I understand that you're taking over the development of Cal-Zone
(or at least have adopted that project as your own) so this may help
that project in the future as well. I fully support Cal-Zone and have
had many great conversations with Craig during its development. I feel
it's a wonderful calendar and wish it much success. I also hope to
learn from any advances You make with it as I hope my advances will help
you.
That said, on with the post :
I develop the PostCalendar module and one particular beta tester keeps
reporting the following:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate 46080 bytes) in
/home/testsite/htdocs/modules/PostCalendar/XXXXXXX on line XXX
I've done everything I can to limit the amount of Memory my calendar
uses and have not received any reports from users of PostNuke that
memory problems Exist.
One of the things I have done to alleviate the memory stress was to
instantiate my pcSmarty class by reference using $tpl =& new pcSmarty
throughout my code.
I am thinking that it might be possible to alleviate more memory usage
problems by having your eNvolution code also instantiate Smarty using
references.
This will allow the code to use the Smarty class as a reference rather
than making a COPY of Smarty. Smarty is written in such a way that
creating a new object by reference should not cause any problems as the
Smarty doc itself says "If you need to create more than one Smarty
object, then you're not using Smarty correctly."
I've noticed that the class is instantiated a number of times throughout
the code all using $foo = new Smarty;
Using $foo =& new Smarty will most likely help with the problem I
described above regarding memory usage.
I took my local copy of eNvolution 1.1.0 that i use to test the
PostCalendar code and found all the instances where smarty was
instantiated and changed those instances to use references. From what I
can tell, no adverse affects became of it.
also... you can reference this document at the main php site for more
information on references
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php
Anyway - I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as you're the core devs of
eNvolution and have much more knowledge of the code base at this time
than I do.
I'd also like to say that your work has been wonderful and has made the
PostNuke and Xaraya teams FINALLY realize how important layout is. Keep
up the good work and keep pushing the threshold.
I wish you all the best in your future coding endeavors.
Thanks,
Roger Raymond
PostCalendar Dev
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