Error 500 with repeater with more than 51 items

[didhavn]

Hey all.

I have a repeater with single textfield items.

Everything is working fine till I reach 51 items. When I want to add the 52th, I get a 500 Internal Server Error and the page is not editable anymore...I have to delete the page and start from scatch.

Can anyone think of a reason for that? And of course a solution?

Thanks a lot!!

[EDIT]

I am running:

- ProcessWire 2.7.2

- FieldtypeRepeater 1.0.2

- MySql Server Version: 5.5.47-0

- PHP Version 5.6.21

[LostKobrakai]

Depending on the number of fields in that repeater you might run into the max_post_vars setting of php.

[szabesz]

You might need to switch to PageTable or something similar. You are hitting the limits of what a Repeater is capable of.

People often run into this issue, see for example:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/13089-repeater-field-limits-and-server-timeouts/

Not long ago I even posted a request in the Wishlist topic section:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/13112-the-possibility-to-specify-a-maximum-item-limit-for-a-repeater-field/