Title: Error with database when on php 7.2
Last modified: September 21, 2018

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# Error with database when on php 7.2

 *  Resolved [hibskids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hibskids/)
 * (@hibskids)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-database-when-on-php-7-2/)
 * get ERROR: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   1701601920 bytes) when running php 7.2 but runs ok on 5.6

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 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-database-when-on-php-7-2/#post-10710361)
 * Hi [@hibskids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hibskids/)
    Could you please
   try the solution in here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allowed-memory-size-of-xxx-exhausted-tried-to-allocate/#post-10100334](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allowed-memory-size-of-xxx-exhausted-tried-to-allocate/#post-10100334)
   Hope that works 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [hibskids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hibskids/)
 * (@hibskids)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-database-when-on-php-7-2/#post-10710427)
 * that solved my issues just took out mysqli and enable nd_mysqli thank u for ur
   time
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-database-when-on-php-7-2/#post-10710653)
 * [@hibskids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hibskids/)
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 * Last reply from: [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-database-when-on-php-7-2/#post-10710653)
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