Home/ Questions/Q 8525269
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-11T07:55:44+00:00

I have this language based application that has language files for each part of

  • 0

I have this language based application that has language files for each part of the program for each language, eg:

// en.inc.php
$lang['main'] = 'this is my main string';

there are some files that have more that 2000 variables and I’m updating the translation in a web form I’ve created.

All of my language files that have few variables are updating flawless, the larger files simply stop at a random variables and my update script doesn’t execute.

post_max_size = 8M – clearly my 2000 strings with 50-100 characters do not sum up to 8M of data (the file has ~100KB)

Last week all worked well, until I’ve updated PHP to 5.3.16.

Did something change about post fields? I’m pretty sure there is something I am missing.
For some unidentified reason I’m not getting any errors even with display_errors turned on.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    It seems that many people are not aware of max_input_vars. It was added in 5.3.9.

    "How many input variables may be accepted. Use of this directive
    mitigates the possibility of denial of service attacks which use hash
    collisions. If there are more input variables than specified by this
    directive, an E_WARNING is issued, and further input variables are
    truncated from the request. This limit applies only to each nesting
    level of a multi-dimensional input array."

    • 0