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This is from the client:

“I was attempting to insert the body from the attached html file into a new page through the EE CMS, but had issues rendering all of the content. The body of the attached page comprises roughly 18k lines of markup as it contains significant amounts of data for College Course Equivalencies. When I save the page in the CMS and view it, the table of data abruptly cuts off between the listing for Education courses (when I view source, I also see that it cuts off in the middle of a closing tr tag displaying “</tr” with no ending bracket.) and the footer breaks as well. It displays above the content instead of below it. After measuring the point where it breaks, it seems that the page is cutting off at around 4k lines of code.

Is there a limit to the amount of code that we can put onto a new page through the Expression Engine? If so, is there a way to increase this limit?”

Anyone deal with this before? Is there a workaround?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best.
Brad

Is there a limit to the amount of code that we can put onto a new page through the Expression Engine?

Well, there is a built-in limit for all custom fields: They are defined as TEXT, so that means no more than 2^16-1 characters.

If so, is there a way to increase this limit?

If you need more, you must manually change the fieldtype to MEDIUMTEXT, which gives you 2^24-1 chars to work with. You can do this in phpMyAdmin, or by running a query like

ALTER TABLE exp_weblog_data MODIFY field_id_10 MEDIUMTEXT

Just make sure to specify the right field_id_ , and do keep a db backup just in case 😉

Thanks Ingmar!

Glad Ingmar was able to help. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.