[FX.php List] Odd problem with POST values

[Dale Bengston]

Bob,

Chris is asking the same question I asked - what errors are being generated by Apache/PHP that result in the white page of death? Can you access the Apache logs for that server? Or can you turn error reporting on for the page after the form submit and see what PHP is trying to tell you? Something is causing a fatal error, and that leaves a trail.

Also, another poster (Steve W?) asked if your form was really using POST. If you view source on the page with the form, does the form tag actually have the attribute method="POST"?

Hope this helps,
Dale


On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Hey Chris,
> 
> Well, if I POST <800 characters, either spread into 3 or 4 separate fields, or in a single field (all of these are type TEXTAREA), the page loads, writes to FileMaker, all is well.
> 
> If I post 800 characters or more, the page never loads, I get the dreaded white screen, meaning there's something going on. Nothing back from FX, so the query isn't getting done.
> 
> If I trace the progress of the page, I do see that the PHP script starts to load; it seems to choke when it tries to pull in the posted text...
> 
> I'm waiting to hear back from my client to see if the change to the PHP.ini file makes any difference...
> 
> I'm not trying to upload anything, by the way, just POSTing text. I've tried plain text, pasted text from Word, but both fail equally dismally... :)
> 
> BP
> 
> 
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> On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Chris Hansen <chris at iViking.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bob,
>> 
>> How exactly does that post fail?  Is an error returned?  Is there something in the log?  (I'd be especially interested to know what's in the Apache logs.)  It seems like there should be something, somewhere that says "upload failed due to x".
>> 
>> Best,
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