https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Drop Down problems with large amount of items. en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:21:01 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-down-problems-with-large-amount-of-items#post-17473 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:53:09 +0000 yuniar 17473@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Problem solved.</p> <p>Just a note for those having the same issues, we found out that PHP 5.3.x introduced a new setting called "max_input_vars" which set a limit on this.</p> <p>The solution, try to edit your init.php file and add this line of code:</p> <pre><code>ini_set(&quot;max_input_vars&quot;,3000);</code></pre> <p>if that doesn't work, you need to edit your PHP configuration file (php.ini) directly and set this value:</p> <pre><code>max_input_vars = 3000</code></pre> <p>Also (based on the information provided by Clint) -- if your host implemented the suhosin extension, you will also need to increase the following settings:</p> <pre><code>suhosin.get.max_vars suhosin.post.max_vars suhosin.request.max_vars</code></pre> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-down-problems-with-large-amount-of-items#post-17384 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:36:04 +0000 Clint 17384@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Email sent with more details. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-down-problems-with-large-amount-of-items#post-17373 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:00:27 +0000 yuniar 17373@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi Clint -- can you let me know what is your exact PHP version? We noticed this problem to be happened on some specific servers.<br /> We can't figure it out yet because we weren't able to reproduce it on our test servers.</p> <p>If you have more detailed information regarding your systems, this would be very helpful.<br /> Are you using MAMP, XAMPP or WAMP or any other?</p> <p>Also, if possible, please send me the result of your phpinfo.<br /> You can mail it to: customer.service [at] appnitro.com </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-down-problems-with-large-amount-of-items#post-17368 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:15:49 +0000 Clint 17368@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Fantastic piece of software!</p> <p>I'm having a small issue with putting a large amount of items in a drop down. I'm trying to insert 417 items but it only shows 238. I've checked in the database and it only saves the first 238 rows. If I manually add a row in the database it will show up on the form. </p> <p>I found some old posts about this limitation in version 2 but I'm using version 3.4. I've looked around in the code and database and can't find anything obvious that is causing this. Any ideas? </p> <p>Thanks! </p>