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size limitation in forms?
After posting this issue with my shortcode and taking a break, I revisited my environment and found that the shortcode is saved up to line 1098, trimming the rest. Note that I could not see this before as the ajax saves did not show that trim. I had to click on the form’s link and basically re-load/visit the page. Is there a size limitation in forms?
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Re: size limitation in forms?
Yes. 64KB.
Incidentally, I tried to paste your entire media shortcode into a Form and the Ajax save failed. It’s too darn big! I had to hack out a tonne of it to get it to save.
EIDT: It didn’t truncate it in my case, just refused to save with a red alert message until I’d hacked out enough to get it under the size limit. This leads me to believe that the result of the action may be MySQL/PHP version specific.
Last edited by Bloke (2020-08-14 17:23:14)
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Bloke wrote #325347:
Yes. 64KB.
Do you think that it will be a very bad idea to increase that to 128KB? Servers are stronger now.
>Edit: I am not suggesting that because of the shorcode as I could easily split it. It is a genuine question.
Last edited by colak (2020-08-14 17:31:29)
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The next size up from TEXT is MEDIUMTEXT which is up to 16MB. A big leap!
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Bloke wrote #325350:
The next size up from TEXT is MEDIUMTEXT which is up to 16MB. A big leap!
That is indeed too much for forms. I had no idea that mysql had this groupings. I thought that the capacities were defined by the devs.
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etc wrote #325356:
Even 64KB full of tags can be stressing for the parser.
Noted! I’ll have to split the codebase.
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etc wrote #325361:
Or somehow modularize it, perhaps?
I started creating variables for the widely used lines of code, but modularising will indeed be much better and it will give me a chance to think about it in a deeper way!
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colak wrote #325366:
I started creating variables for the widely used lines of code, but modularising will indeed be much better and it will give me a chance to think about it in a deeper way!
Yes! There’s soooo much duplication in that <txp::media> shortcode. There has to be a way of refactoring it somehow to help the poor parser out. My site’s memory usage went into meltdown when I added a video to it :)
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Bloke wrote #325369:
Yes! There’s soooo much duplication in that
<txp::media>shortcode. There has to be a way of refactoring it somehow to help the poor parser out. My site’s memory usage went into meltdown when I added a video to it :)
Stay tuned for v2 in the next couple of weeks:)
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I would expect a good approach might be to process all the variables up-front and use defaults so you can guarantee that they have values. Even if the value is a well-known fake value like “UNAVAILABLE” or something.
That will give you the ability to get rid of a tonne of conditionals in the individual handlers. So you may only need to worry about testing cookies. But even there you can perhaps pre-process them once you know which flavour of content you’re serving? Then it’s just a single <txp:if_variable> test for each content type.
There may be some complexities I haven’t figured as I didn’t quite understand the way you’d set it all up when I was hacking out the bits I didn’t need. But there ought to be a way of making a single template per type (audio, video) or maybe a few types with common elements, and feeding the variables into them.
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