[FX.php List] PHP restriction on data transfer? SOLVED

[Bob Patin]

Solved: it turned out to be a setting that was introduced in PHP 5.3 that was not in PHP 5.2: 

max_input_vars

It defaults to 1000, which was smaller than the huge data that my client's web app was trying to pass back to FileMaker. In PHP 5.2, since this constraint didn't exist, they had no problems. I enabled this setting in php.ini and set it to 4000 to be safe, and all is well on their server.

Hope this helps someone out at some point; it was hard to spot, especially since the same setting didn't yet exist in PHP 5.2.


Bob Patin
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> On Mar 23, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Chris Hansen <chris at iViking.org> wrote:
> 
> Hmmmm...  What about the server logs.  Anything in there?
> 
> As for installing and uninstalling, have you considered homebrew?  (I'm talking about the package manager here, not homemade spiritous beverages =)  It gives you some of the nice things you can do on linux, but under Mac OS X; including fine-grained control of apache and php versions.  And it may well be smart enough to turn off your existing server bits for you.  Yes, it does require a bit of command line typing, but not too much.
> 
> Best,
> 
> --Chris
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com <mailto:bob at patin.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Chris,
>> 
>> Yes, it pulls back 27 every time; apparently, his app does a POST and creates a bunch of records; in his test, he’s trying to create 35 records, and it chokes on 27 every time.
>> 
>> I didn’t write this app, but it sounds like he’s passing an ID and a couple of other fields for each record that he’s trying to create. I tried upping the memory for a POST, but that didn’t affect things.
>> 
>> Short of rewriting this for him, any thoughts? He says it works fine with 5.2 (which seems odd to me, but anyway), and because this is his private server, I can modify this machine for him.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help,
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> Bob Patin
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>>> On Mar 23, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Chris Hansen <chris at iViking.org <mailto:chris at iViking.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Bob,
>>> 
>>> Backing up a bit here...  Under PHP 5.3 will the app pull back ANY records at all, or does it just have problems with pages pulling large datasets?  Just checking whether the problem might be anything but memory.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> --Chris
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com <mailto:bob at patin.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have a client who has told me that his web app, which apparently pulls back about 50 records (I assume it's pulling from a portal) is choking with PHP 5.3, but not with PHP 5.2.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a PHP setting that might restrict the amount of data that comes in at one time, or from within a portal? If so, could anyone direct me to that PHP setting?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't read from portals; I read from the related table; because I don't, I've not seen any restrictions like this. Is this something that can happen if a web app is pulling data directly from a portal, as opposed to pulling 50 records from a related table?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Bob Patin
>>>> Longterm Solutions
>>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com <mailto:bob at longtermsolutions.com>
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