Form Wizard doesn´t save changes

Hi and greetings from Austria (no kangaroos but many cows and mountains ;-) )

At first thanks for your great work and also sorry for my bad english ;-)
I have the problem, that the form wizard doesn´t save the changes.
i have an test-installation on my own Server where it works fine.
On our new webspace there is the problem, that when i make changes and save them, the next screen isn´t the chronoforms Forms Manager page but the joomla Start-page und the changes are not saved.

The webside-Adress: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.roentgen-liesing.at">www.roentgen-liesing.at</a><!-- w --> (sorry, only in german at the moment)
What Infos do you need more to help me to solve my (very big) problem?
I can also give you an backend account if you need this (if you think that will be fine and easier for solving the problem please send me an email, i reply with the account details für the backend)

Joomla 2.5.4, Chronoforms_V4_RC3.3_J1.6

Many thanks for your support
greetings, alex

Hi Alex.

Please see this FAQ

Bob

thx - this problems are now solved.

Bob,

I'm a little confused. I have two forms on two different websites (on the same web host) that were created with version 3.3. I had no problem creating the forms under 3.3 and they work find in production. Since installing version 3.5, the forms still work on both websites but I can no longer edit either form. Clicking Save or Cancel returns me to the Joomla Control Panel. In your prior reply you indicated that the problem may be the max_input_vars setting (currently set at 1000.) If that was the problem, wouldn't it stop the form that was saved under version 3.3 from working and not just stop if from being edited? It appears that neither suhosin or mod_security is installed. It does appear to be a size limitation because smaller forms can still be edited. Another factor may be that I upgraded to PHP 5.3 from 4.7.

Any guidance you can provide will be appreciated.

Jim

Hi Jim,

It probably is the max_input_vars setting. The form will continue to work on the front-end because there are many many fewer inputs. The Form Wizard uses several inputs for each form element and at least one for each action option so the number builds up very quickly.

Can you increase max_input_vars? (I don't think it was set by default in PHP 4.7) Please see this FAQ.

Bob

Bob,

Going back to php 5.2 with suhosin installed from php 5.3 solved the problem although I have another program that wants php 5.3 (apparently suhosin isn't yet available for 5.3.)

I set the suhosin variables as follows:

suhosin.get.max_vars: 2000
suhosin.post.max_vars: 2000
suhosin.request.max_vars: 2000

Currently there is a php.ini file in every directory on my site setting these variables. My ISP (SiteGround) sets both php with suhosin and the suhosin variables by directory. Would setting the suhosin variables only in the ChronoForms directories be sufficient or do I need it everywhere like I have it now (or in other specific places?)

Jim

Currently there is a php.ini file in every directory on my site setting these variables. My ISP (SiteGround) sets both php with suhosin and the suhosin variables by directory. Would setting the suhosin variables only in the ChronoForms directories be sufficient or do I need it everywhere like I have it now (or in other specific places?)

Bob,

Do you have any thoughts on whether or not I need suhosin in all directories or just the chornoform directories?

Jim

Hi Jim,

ChronoForms doesn't *need* suhosin at all. But, if suhosin is installed on your server, then you may need to make sure that the settings allow ChronoForms to run. I don't know exactly what directories the permissions need to be set for - the users who posted about suhosin appeared to have universal settings. I guess that you'd try the administrator/components/com_chronoforms/ folder and see if that worked OK.

Bob