How to fix memory getting exhausted with PHPExcel?

Question

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1078799 bytes) in D:\\xampplite\\htdocs\\Scraper\\PHPExcel\\Reader\\Exc

Answer 1

Xdebug is profiler/debugger for php and can help you trace through memory usage and functional calls to figure out where the problem lies. And its easy to install, most linux distributions have it in repository, "yum install xdebug", "apt-get install xdebug".