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I have an extremely long form that EE can’t seem to process in my template.

It gives me the following errors when I try to save my template:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined index: template_data

Filename: cp/design.php

Line Number: 2048

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hosting/webs/headsup/beta.heads-up.com/web/engine/codeigniter/system/core/Exceptions.php:170)

Filename: core/Common.php

Line Number: 409

A Database Error Occurred

Error Number: 1048

Column 'item_data' cannot be null

INSERT INTO `exp_revision_tracker` (`item_id`, `item_table`, `item_field`, `item_data`, `item_date`, `item_author_id`) VALUES ('18', 'exp_templates', 'template_data', NULL, 1312562722, 1)

Filename: controllers/cp/design.php

Line Number: 2053

I can post the form code if the above doesn’t help troubleshoot the issue, but it is extremely long.

Thanks for any help.

Hi there mediapimp,

Providing your template code may be the only way we can help trouble shoot. Don’t worry about it being “too long” 😉

Be sure to wrap your code in

[code]

</code></pre>
tags and we’ll take a look over it.

Thanks,

Well, it was too long and exceeded the character limit so I attached it.

Thanks for taking a look.

Hi mediapimp,

Wow, you weren’t kidding. That is one long form. What version of ExpressionEngine is causing this issue? You are seeing this error when trying to save this form in a template via the Control Panel? What are you using to process the form? Have you tried saving the template out as a file? I was able to save your code into a template via the Control Panel in my local install of ExpressionEngine 2.2.2.

Follow up with me and we’ll get this sorted out.

Cheers,

One solution would be to break up the form fields into embedded templates. For instance you could setup the Contact Information

Name,Address, City, State, Phone, Email into its own template. Then embed that within your actual form page.
Each section could be setup this way. So your form would look something like:

<form>
{embed="forms/.category_info"}
{embed="forms/.custom_info"
{embed="forms/.contact_info"}
</form>

The EE version is 2.2.1 - Build: 20110705.

Yes, when I try to save the template I get the error. Using some jQuery to process the form. I have not tried saving it out as a file.

Thanks for your help.

Brandon, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a shot.

Tried splitting it up into embedded templates. Still choking.

Hi, mediapimp. You may need to change the file type for that particular field from MediumText to LongText. (template_data). Does that help?

I’m not sure I follow. Where/how do I do that?

I wouldn’t worry about that, mediapimp. That involves work directly on the database, and I’m not sure that’s even the problem.

It does sound like EE is choking when submitting the template, but since you’ve split it up and it’s still causing you a problem, let’s try a few things:

1) Upgrade to the latest version just to make sure we’re working on the same page. If you’ve discovered a bug, we want to make sure it’s a bug in the current release of EE.

2) Continue breaking it down into the smallest chunks possible. What I’m doing here is trying to narrow down exactly *what* in the templates is causing EE problems. Having already broken it down into smaller chunks, it doesn’t look like the length of the form is the root of the problem. So let’s find out what is.

3) Does the same thing happen when you set this template to be a flat file?

The same thing happens when set to be a flat file.

So I split it up into 500 line chunks and it worked!

So it does seem the length was the issue.

Bug in EE?

I doubt it, I’ve had much longer templates that had no problems saving. But let’s find out before we dismiss that.

Do you recall how long your longest template was before it gave you any errors? And were the errors contained to any one template or was it all the broken up templates until they were under a certain number of lines?

I really don’t recall.

I really appreciate the help in further looking into this this but since it is now working I’ve had to move on with the project and don’t really have the time to go back and retry it a bunch of times to see how many lines it takes to make it choke.

I’m certainly not trying to be unhelpful or unappreciative of your help, so please don’t interpret this in that way. I’ve just spent too much time on it already.

Thanks again.

Oh, no problem at all! Just wanted to let you know that we’re willing to chase this down further if you had the time, but I certainly understand needing to move on to other things. Let us know if there’s anything else we can do!