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Looks like I've found a bug. Steps to reproduce:

1. Although it seems to be failing with any module, for convenience, open the qa-plugin/basic-adsense/qa-basic-adsense.php file

2. Add the following function to it:

function load_module($directory$urltoroot$type$name) {
    
error_log('111');
    
qa_opt('a');  // Make sure this option title is NOT in the DB
    
error_log('222');
}

3. Go to the plugins page
 
The page breaks with an HTTP 500 error. The log results:
 
[... too many "111" outputs... over a hundred in my case ...]
[Sun Jan 12 23:48:18 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] 111, referer: http://localhost/admin/general
[Sun Jan 12 23:48:18 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 91 bytes) in /my-local-path/site/qa-include/qa-app-options.php on line 219, referer: http://localhost/admin/general
 
So it seems there is some kind of loop going on there that is triggering the loading of modules. What would be the appropriate way of creating a ticket for this bug? I see no BUG category and no way to report it using github.

 

Q2A version: 1.6.2
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Could it be that error_log() does not work correctly in the load_module function? Just don't use it :)
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Poor error_log. When everybody has left me aside in the debugging process, he has been there for me :) And no, it is not the error_log. I believe the qa_opt is calling the load_module and, in turn, the load_module is calling the qa_opt. There must be some kind of condition not being checked in this process. Note the init_queries method does get properly called and no infinite loop happens in there.
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This is like specifications of Q2A not bug. However, I am troubled with this problem very much, too. This produces even that we call qa_opt() from CONSTRUCTOR function of the plugin. I think this is a most big defect when we make plugin of Q2A.
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Do you think it is slowing down the page build?
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This matter is potential problem (coding limit) from old days. Therefore I think that it is not cause of slowing down of this site.

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I answered on Github: https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/issues/22

In short: don't use qa_opt inside load_module. Sorry.

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You should not apologize. As far as I'm concerned, I should be taking a closer look at the issue and send you a pull request. It's me who should be sorry for not doing so :)
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