Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43148176 bytes) in php

Question

This error message is being presented, any suggestions?

Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43148176 bytes) in php

Answer 1

If you want to read large files, you should read them bit by bit instead of reading them at once.
It’s simple math: If you read a 1 MB large file at once, than at least 1 MB of memory is needed at the same time to hold the data.

So you should read them bit by bit using fopen & fread.