Server issue No Error Displayed If Missing Text Replacement During Smilie Import (XF 1.3)

[Snog]

The error if your missing the text replacement for a smilie while importing shows in the javascript console, no error shows to the user other than what's shown below.

 

[Mike]

I can't reproduce this. If I leave the "Text to Replace" option blank, I just get an error telling that it's missing. Can you check your server error log or look at what is showing in the JavaScript console?

 

[Snog]

Now I am also unable to reproduce it importing one smilie.

When it was reported to me, the import was a huge number of smilies. I mean huge!

The only PHP error at the time that it happened was this..

PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000......

I know how to correct that server error, but I'm guessing that it somehow triggered the loss of the error from XF.

 

[Mike]

Unfortunately, this error occurs before XenForo runs. PHP output the warning which would have then corrupted our JSON output. This relates to the max_input_vars PHP configuration: http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-input-vars I would recommend raising it if needed.

On a side note, in production, you generally want to have PHP's display_errors configuration turned off. It can potentially leak information otherwise.

 

[Snog]

Thanks, I knew how to correct the server side error.

FYI, this isn't on a production server. It's a test/development server not on the public network. I have a rack of servers configured with different flavors of Linux, MySQL, XF, vB, etc. for testing purposes.