Posted by StevePBurgess on 12/18/92 11:51

Hi. I have a script that runs every night on my server that counts the
hits for my hosted RSS feeds and puts the information into a MySQL
table which then feeds the live(ish) statistics graphs on the site.

I am using:

$log=implode('',file("access_log"));
$count=substr_count($log,"GET /feed7.xml");

for example to count the number of times feed7.xml is requested.

As the popularity of my site increases, however, I have started to
notice these errors in the error log:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried
to allocate 10802165 bytes) in

I know I could increase the memory settings in PHP - but is there a
smarter way of counting entries in the log file without trying to load
the entire thing into memory first?

Thanks, in anticipation

Steve

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