I am rebuilding one of my websites and looking at using ExpressionEngine for my non-developer friends to maintain content.
I am doing a dry run with EE Core and having an issue where Templates are saving as blank (both to files AND database).
When I click submit to save the changes to the template, the edit page is reloaded with no content. If set to save as files, the files are saved as blank. I check the database record and it is blank.
I have tried to troubleshoot what is causing the issue but am having no luck. I have tried modifying my entries little by little but find no discerning characteristics behind what template content will save properly and what will save as blank (length, add-ons, loops, conditionals, php inclusion, save/don’t save as file, creating new template records, other template records with different content).
I originally installed EE locally on XAMPP and had zero issues.
I moved the files to a server to test online and that’s when the issue started. I figured it could have been a problem with transferring the EE installation, so I did a fresh install on the server and created templates from scratch. The issue still occurs.
I tried to recreate the issue locally but it works absolutely fine locally which made me think it could be an issue with the server, but it meets all requirements according to EE. I even tried it on a different server and I get the same errors.
At this point, the only way to make the changes to templates and guarantee they stay are to edit the files and sync or edit the database records directly.
I really like EE and want to move forward with purchasing the license and using it on this site, but I don’t want to spend $300 if this is how I have to continue working on it.
Has anyone had this issue?