Article limit - text disappears when saving in TXP

Zubrik · 2009-01-01 10:55:30

Hi,

I want to publish quite a long article. I’m writing it in Textile in a text editor, then I copy and paste it in my site, but when I hit the “Save” button, all the text disappears from the textarea.

I’ve tried copying and pasting it in parts, so I copy some paragraphs and paste them, then hit “Save”, but when I reach a certain amount of text, the problem happens again.

I’m using the latest version of TXP.

When I run diagnostics, the only problem I have is the show_source function being disabled in my server, but I don’t know if that may have something to do with my text disappearing problem.

Thanks for any advice.

Edited:

Moreover, when I switch between tabs in TXP (Text, HTML, Preview), this info appears on screen:

Notice: Undefined variable: sPosted in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/include/txp_article.php on line 381

Fatal error:
Error: ‘’ is not an integer
textpattern/include/txp_article.php:871 assert_int()
textpattern/include/txp_article.php:381 checkIfNeighbour()
textpattern/include/txp_article.php:51 article_edit()
textpattern/index.php:116 include()
in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php on line 2128

Wish that can help solve the problem.

Last edited by Zubrik (2009-01-01 11:18:28)

Bloke · 2009-01-01 11:34:50

Zubrik wrote:

when I hit the “Save” button, all the text disappears from the textarea.

As a stab in the dark, sometimes this is caused by your host environment. If they have limits on the size of a request, you may hit this problem if they simply empty out anything over a certain size instead of truncating it. If you have control over the php.ini file, or can otherwise set the size limits, try increasing them and see if that helps.

I have also known some hosts’ strict anti-spam filters to get in the way. In my case when I posted certain words in certain contexts, my article never got saved and I was shown an ugly HTTP error message. I don’t think this is what is happening in your case, but it might be related.

Notice: Undefined variable: sPosted in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/include/txp_article.php on line 381

Urk, that’s not good at all; perhaps that is the real reason things aren’t working right. But I can’t answer that one, sorry. You’ll have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to check in.

keith · 2009-01-01 16:38:34

Error: ‘’ is not an integer

Is this not possibly an indicator of a cut & paste problem?

Bloke · 2009-01-01 16:47:05

keith wrote:

Error: ‘’ is not an integer. Is this not possibly an indicator of a cut & paste problem?

I don’t think so in this case. That message comes from the assert_int() function which checks if what you give it is actually a valid integer.

It seems that the code is expecting said integer (the contents of sPosted should be a representation of the article’s ‘Posted’ date) and when it can’t find such a date — or it somehow fails to determine the date — you’ll see that message. sPosted is supposed to be one of those “number of seconds since UNIX epoch” things, i.e. a big-ass number derived from the ‘Posted’ field of the article being edited. Here it is empty, and only people with bigger brains than me can determine why.

ruud · 2009-01-01 22:33:45

Quite often it’s a plugin that causes this type of error.

Zubrik · 2009-01-02 08:21:00

I’ve created a new, longer article, wich contains just <p>, and there’s no problem saving it and switching betwwen Text, HTML and Preview tabs.

The article that gives me the problem, on the other hand, contains a bunch of tables and lists, and there’s a mix of Textile and XHTML in it.

Perhaps that helps finding a solution.

wet · 2009-01-02 08:33:57

Another frequent reason for content-dependent errors is an overzealous security setting at the web server.

Try one of those steps:

1. If you can enable or disable “additional web security” (or something similar) in your web server’s control panel, try to disable it.
2. Disable POST security filtering. Create a new file named .htaccess in your ../textpattern (!) directory and put these directives into it:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
  SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

3. Visit your web server’s error_log file to find out if related messages were recorded at the time of your post attempts.

Zubrik · 2009-01-02 11:07:30

wet wrote:

p. 3. Visit your web server’s error_log file to find out if related messages were recorded at the time of your post attempts.

This is what my server’s error_log says, since I updated to 4.0.7:

[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/constants.php) [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/index.php on line 24
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/constants.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/index.php on line 24
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php) [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/index.php on line 25
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/index.php on line 25
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/constants.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 28
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/constants.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 28
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 29
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 29
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 30
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 30
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_html.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 31
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_html.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 31
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_forms.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 32
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/txplib_forms.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 32
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once(/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/admin_config.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 33
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Warning:  include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening '/home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/lib/admin_config.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 33
[31-Dec-2008 19:00:11] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function getmicrotime() in /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern/publish.php on line 44

wet · 2009-01-02 11:14:21

Looks like you’ve missed a few files during the upload. Try once more…

Zubrik · 2009-01-02 11:31:56

wet wrote:

Looks like you’ve missed a few files during the upload. Try once more…

I re-upgraded, and nothing seems to improve.

By the way, this is what the diagnostics say (in Sapnish):

Versión de Textpattern: 4.0.7 (r3033)
Última actualización: 2008-12-31 18:06:53/2009-01-02 10:26:44
Document root: /home/conejos/public_html
$path_to_site: /home/conejos/public_html
Path a Textpattern: /home/conejos/public_html/textpattern
Modo de enlace permanente: section_title
Directorio temporal: /tmp
URL del sitio: www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
Versión de PHP: 5.2.5
Biblioteca de imagen GD: bundled (2.0.34 compatible); formatos soportados: GIF, JPG, PNG.
Tiempo Local del Servidor: 2009-01-02 12:51:51
MySQL: 5.0.51a-community
Local: es_ES.UTF-8
Servidor: Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
PHP Server API: cgi
Cabeceras RFC 2616: 0
Sistema Operativo del servidor: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5PAE
Plugins Activos: zem_contact-0.6m, bas_flvplayer-0.2, ob1_title-2.2, mdn_count-1.4, rss_suparchive-0.16.1

Comprobación previa:
————————————
Las siguientes funciones de PHP (que pueden ser necesarias para Textpattern) están deshabilitadas en tu servidor: show_source
————————————

Contenidos del archivo .htaccess:
————————————
#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$ RewriteRule .* – [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

#php_value register_globals 0

————————————

Charset (default/config): latin1/utf8
character_set_client: utf8
character_set_connection: utf8
character_set_database: latin1
character_set_filesystem: binary
character_set_results: utf8
character_set_server: latin1
character_set_system: utf8
character_sets_dir: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
18 Tables: OK

Extensiones de PHP: xmlwriter/0.1, libxml, xmlrpc/0.51, dom/20031129, xmlreader/0.1, xml, tokenizer/0.1, session, pcre, SimpleXML/0.1, SPL/0.2, sockets, SQLite/2.0-dev, standard/5.2.5, Reflection/0.1, posix, mysql/1.0, mime_magic/0.1, mcrypt, mbstring, json/1.2.1, imap, iconv, hash/1.0, gettext, gd, ftp, filter/0.11.0, date/5.2.5, curl, ctype, calendar, bcmath, zlib/1.1, openssl, cgi, eAccelerator/0.9.5.3, suhosin/0.9.27, Zend Optimizer

/../index.php: r2885 (07df52cf240f35ed1db621304d26f680)
/css.php: r2772 (4d5b1fc3589c3a175a6d100042073a20)
/include/txp_admin.php: r3013 (39db1c3021c33ad8675c3e40d2ce0fe6)
/include/txp_article.php: r3033 (37bb535e252c4796eeeba5be20a0e226)
/include/txp_auth.php: r2856 (9291e4ebbe87921a765209cbc9ee6c66)
/include/txp_category.php: r2947 (b34b82edd9130528c129301b671a61d2)
/include/txp_css.php: r2836 (e39c717cc7fb5afda81b520644c5bed8)
/include/txp_diag.php: r2930 (b3f713f94e068aa4f891bbd4ceafe6e2)
/include/txp_discuss.php: r2994 (5bac3c8be75d55ee791346b8245fc56f)
/include/txp_file.php: r3016 (28b3134a0652c2b9f7f5018fd2be3340)
/include/txp_form.php: r2994 (433d1d1087afe4880c93ddd1afd44b1e)
/include/txp_image.php: r2994 (49093961b5b10be54fc45cd8d090741c)
/include/txp_import.php: r2812 (ddf61c42f9dace30d9d2bdb976c2762f)
/include/txp_link.php: r2994 (1395446475dded75033c01857ab489c2)
/include/txp_list.php: r3033 (1106388ce132fa7c6161c504d8ed4a73)
/include/txp_log.php: r3003 (0c81cdb83ba98fa9097353a859beb7a4)
/include/txp_page.php: r2994 (5feb4fb3940c24839d2fe743f46388c4)
/include/txp_plugin.php: r2948 (027bfb3ea837984785446900f515aacb)
/include/txp_prefs.php: r2965 (05335e08e4d7584cfd38b7af7e5a9d1d)
/include/txp_preview.php: r1238 (64de77f275a336d581425b3f05427745)
/include/txp_section.php: r2759 (97d7221ead97497644ebeeeaee460377)
/include/txp_tag.php: r2868 (c16be34198f79bcf80fa7cd1b463e4de)
/index.php: r3025 (a052be4e3877768b80fc5d2a67352276)
/lib/IXRClass.php: r2932 (292f64a316088dd54e22ebbe0310bed7)
/lib/admin_config.php: r2812 (37fc7e59624a431ebe60085c6376eb2e)
/lib/class.thumb.php: r2859 (e0cc384ab8121c4a95b9c9325df3a15a)
/lib/classTextile.php: r2812 (28cb53acccd418e6a0f832eb08002069)
/lib/constants.php: r3033 (0c8cdf4ba7629a31391076b9624842a9)
/lib/taglib.php: r2868 (7748936c0eb64f55fd7659a47697c74b)
/lib/txplib_admin.php: r2726 (dfce8f698c57bfbef8511690fc04fc55)
/lib/txplib_db.php: r3033 (5c764a86158d55bf72e58ec55cfdd84a)
/lib/txplib_forms.php: r3033 (a11d5b09eab337faf01f452544eb9b25)
/lib/txplib_head.php: r3004 (a3a5ccd14665ee25ea73e7646667c85a)
/lib/txplib_html.php: r2981 (64fe6808d2fea1c5d966b143a17d1914)
/lib/txplib_misc.php: r3017 (bdd8d8235c37422ca0db00febd2a6e49)
/lib/txplib_update.php: r2812 (2d84e29d2749f59e4f869956daf34f1c)
/lib/txplib_wrapper.php: r2931 (aba033174425e5ceac840557c594235d)
/publish.php: r3033 (5f3902f96e84ff52af98f77fccf578db)
/publish/atom.php: r3033 (813650da027604848c6ea5678148fdaa)
/publish/comment.php: r3011 (8cd141292a74734ac3e0ced9565163e7)
/publish/log.php: r2937 (b18f84fc40b5b1c4cc9df04dd6065369)
/publish/rss.php: r3033 (2c5051c53fb54d2e98b7b70480387122)
/publish/search.php: r2812 (724a9876809efe461ed1043ef1202258)
/publish/taghandlers.php: r3033 (e51dc2b36fa5242848d59164c99d79fb)
/../rpc/index.php: r2998 (fe85476abd66e78243a28145f51f6c3c)
/../rpc/TXP_RPCServer.php: r2998 (cc21bac9cae7c6de1d7b219e7290196c)
/update/_to_1.0.0.php: r711 (a8ed15439927effd9410d398bf070c32)
/update/_to_4.0.2.php: r711 (535e452b8d1071d005e2c1d0b199c0b3)
/update/_to_4.0.3.php: r711 (f5506cfd0fbc3ad4bd9a9b2299468775)
/update/_to_4.0.4.php: r711 (4d867b42ee87a7f11d2bff3a8e91bed0)
/update/_to_4.0.5.php: r2894 (b39e404b5120ad687a4a07a1156d6352)
/update/_to_4.0.6.php: r2464 (7e5ae73eb64c24438918697089a1f321)
/update/_to_4.0.7.php: r3014 (24b32428e0385a021e8815940190980d)
/update/_update.php: r3024 (f950d225bf3d8cf6742ae0054dbce8bf)

I have no idea if the stuff about the show_source PHP function being disabled on the server may have anything to do with the problem.

Thanks again.

Last edited by Zubrik (2009-01-02 11:54:57)

jstubbs · 2009-01-02 11:40:18

Are you uploading in binary? SFTP?

Zubrik · 2009-01-02 12:01:40

jstubbs wrote:

Are you uploading in binary? SFTP?

No, I’m uploading in “Auto” mode, and FTP.

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