Stack Overflow and out of Memory Errors

[Storman™]

This has been posted a few times before but I thought I'd post my experience in case it helps others.

Almost out of the blue one of my bridged sites (1.0.12 / 1.1.1 / 1.1.6 ) started throwing out the following errors when wrapped and viewed in IE 6 or 7 (fine with FireFox).

Stack overflow at line: 433

and

Out of Memory at line 404

It worked fine unwrapped in IE.

Now in the past this has been attributed to one of two things:

1) not having this on the bottom of your Joomla template:

Code Select Expand

<? mysql_select_db($GLOBALS['db_name']); ?>

or

2) The SMF header being inside the body of the Joomla site. Sometimes fixed by installing this mod if using default SMF template:

http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=265

However, despite trying all of the above on a cloned test site I couldn't get rid of the error messages. Even installed different Joomla and SMF templates and it still persisted.

Eventually I found the problem. A few days before I had set the way external avatars were handled in SMF if they were too large. I had set it to "Resize with Javascript". As I use FireFox mainly I did'nt notice an issue to some days later. However, this was the problem. Setting it to any of the other options stopped the error messages.

Hope the info helps someone else.   

(Oh, and yes I've since upgraded to 1.1.2 and 1.1.7  )

[mtbireland]

Thanks a million for this...had me stumped for months.....

[Geas]

Same here. Thanks man.

[Dumbo]

Thanks BIG time!