URL to your eFiction: www.kmarchive.net
Version of eFiction: 3.5.2, modified for sorting by length and date
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: no
Version of PHP: Don't know, but since he's a programmer recent would be a good bet.
Version of MySQL: Same as above
Have you searched for your problem: Yes
If so, what terms did you try: story text, story length
State the nature of your problem: Whether you load a story by copy or Paste or load it by Txt document (HTML loading blue screens on me), it will show the complete story during the preview, but then once it's submitted it stops at slightly over 10,000 wrds. I made sure the submissions settings were set to 0. The story that's having issues is 63,000 and a bit words.
Do you have a test account for us? Testing2 Password: Liswind
Question 1: How are you storing the stories? Are they being archived in a folder (files) or are you using the database (mySQL) to store your fics. (You can find this under ADMIN->SETTINGS->SUBMISSION SETTINGS)
Question 2: If you chose files did you have a folder set up named stories (or whatever you decided to name your stories folder when you did your initial install)?
Question 3: Are you validating the stories? I just posted one I can edit it but it won't let me see the completed story because it has not be validated. (That is found under Admin->Submissions) See if validating won't get the complete story to appear.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
It's in a MySQl Database and has a path. I temporarily upped the Testing Account to Admin.
I am Validating the stories. I checked the one you posted and it came through ok. Short stories always do though. It's long stories that are submitted as one single chapter that are having an issue. it's not allowing anything over 10,500 and som change. i'd like people to be able to submit a story of any length in any form they desire. Whether it be chapters or a single file.
Well you could try changing the storytext field in the chapters table to a longtext or longblob field, but I'll give you 50/50 odds it still won't go through because the server will time out. I'll also give you even odds that you'll have complaints from people trying to read the story because a single chapter that long will probably take too long to load into a browser if it too doesn't time out.
Is it that way because I'm using the Database to store the fics, Tammy? Would the use of Folders prevent that from happening?
I think you'd still have a chance that it wouldn't work. Your web hosting isn't going to let you eat their resources.
If a file is taking took long to process (such as trying to display a novel on one page), they're going to kill the process and stop your page from loading.
You make some very good points. Let's not do that. I quite like my Host. Is there anyway to get it to allow at least 20,000 words? I've seen files of this length posted on the www.ksarchive.com .
It's all character length. Take out any html you have maybe. You might be fine doing that with storing the text in files.
