[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Underlab

I uploaded the files. When I go to the admin and click on

links and downloads>settings>
or
links and downloads>permissions>

I get -

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 737280 bytes) in /../forums/local_links_admin.php(1693) : eval()'d code on line 386

what do I do? Where do i even begin to check out the problem?

Looks like your web server is allowing php to use up to 8Mbytes. Depending on how many hacks you install into VBulletin, it is easy to exceed this.

Go to vbulletin->admincp->maintenance->phpinfo. Look for the memory_limit and safe_mode settings. I imagine you'll find that memory_limit is 8M. You should ideally get your site admin to increase that to (e.g.) 12M - it's set in the server's php.ini file.

If you can't do that, and provided safe_mode is off, I can probably give you a patch that will get round the problem.