Symphony.

I’m wondering if there is a maximum of fields inside sections?

I use a section with a lot of fields inside it, but when I reached 27 fields I can’t make a new field for this section. It won’t save the section with 28 fields.

There isn’t a limit, I’ve created sections with more than 30 fields before. When you say “it won’t save”, do you get an error message? Perhaps it’s a PHP memory limit thing. Try this in your .htaccess and try adding more fields:

php_value memory_limit 128M

That dit it for me. Now I can add more fields into the sections.

Thanks for your help.

No problem! I often find this with MAMP where the default memory limit is rather low.

I have the same problem again.
I’ve changed the php_value memory_limit to 9999M and now I can’t make more fields, the same problem when I changed the limit to 600M, 200M and so on…
First the solution solved the problem but when I created more fields it won’t save.
I don’t get an error message when the section isn’t saved.

How many fields can you save with 9999M?

(BTW: This memory limit is definitely a big risk. I would expect this to have many side effects.)

When I use 9999M inside my .htaccess I can make 29 fields.
Does the memory limit cover only 1 section or all the sections inside Symphony? I use at the moment 16 sections in total.

It’s the amount of memory a script is allowed to allocate.

Your problem sounds very strange to me. Are you working on MAMP, a “native” local or a webspace/server environment? Do you find anything in Symphony’s log file or in the PHP log (if there is one)? Which Symphony version are you using?

Maybe you can post a list of field types you are using — I would try and build a section using them, and report back what happened.

I’m working on a webspace environment and currently running version 2.0.8RC3.
Sometimes it works when I save the entry, other times it doesn’t. Then I’ll just keep on trying ‘till it is finally saved.

Where can I find the log files?

/manifest/log

I’ve looked at my log file. When I try to save the section this is displayed inside the log:
2010/07/08 11:53:09 > NOTICE: Session: Taking out the trash!