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ExpressionEngine 2.5.2 Build 20120606

The issue:
In _only_ the current production environment, two of the eight channels will not allow an entry to be modified or a new entry to be added. The behavior is that the new/edit page simply reloads again and no changes are actually submitted to the database. There are NO errors displayed on the screen or in any of the server logs (not even JS errors in any console.) We were able to produce errors related to the Matrix add-on one time, but upgrading that solved the issue that was producing those errors, but it did not solve the core problem.

Strangely, these two channels are similar in setup as two others - they use the same fieldtypes and hold similar content (but are separate/unique fields for each channel, not actually shared between them.)

As it turns out, the required field issue as outlined in the forum link above may be the issue here. I’ve discovered that after the submit button is clicked, the Date tab does show an error:

The Entry Date field is required.

Of course, there is a date in that field by default always. I’ve tried playing around with it, picking a new date, typing something in, pasting the date from the edit list, etc. Nothing seems to help.

But perhaps that narrows things down some.

After hiring a technical consultant, it was discovered that the Suhosin patch for PHP was limiting the amount of POST data in some way. Disabling that solved the issue.

Hi David,

Fantastic! Glad to see you got it sorted out and thanks for sharing your findings.

If you need anything else, please let us know.

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