By eyelove808 on

I am using the Jaded theme and up until now I have had NO issues trying to arrange and add blocks.

I use the handle to arrange my blocks to where I want them. I press save blocks. Nothing changes.

I try to arrange the blocks by using the drop down menu and selecting where I want the block to appear and press save, nothing happens.

I load a different browser, log in as admin, go to blocks page and try again... nothing!!!

I have tried the same steps above using different themes as well, it just DOES NOT save my settings.

When I press the Save Blocks button the page reloads (like it should be saving) the block I tried to move to the right sidebar is still disabled. I try moving ANY of my blocks, but I am unable to move anything, it won't recognize my save for some reason.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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lionheart8’s picture

lionheart8 commented

I have had this problem 2 times before including a few days ago.
The first time was on a free server which at the time was experiencing several problems because of an ongoing upgrade. Several PHP functions where disabled, which affected several functions in Drupal & there were memory-related issues at other times. I could not save blocks after creating or editing them.
It was very frustrating because there was no helpful suggestions from the forum, as no one seemed to have had this before.

I transferred a copy of the site to a paid server which had no such issues & it functioned normally. I could save blocks, etc. when I came back to the original site, same issues. This continued until the server issues were rectified.

I have long moved on to paid hosting, but 3 days ago, to my horror, for a period of 3 hours, I could save no block changes. I contacted the host & they admitted my "site" was having some issues, something which I doubted, because it could not only be my site on the server experiencing whatever caused that. I insistted they look at the problem as we're chatting & within a few moments the problem was gone.

A few weeks ago, someone had the same problem here in the forum & when I explained my experience, he also said his server was having some problems at the time.

So based on my experience: there's something going on the server. If your site is remotely hosted, contact the webhost to look into it.
I may be wrong, though.

mikebrooks’s picture

mikebrooks commented

I recently had this problem on Drupal 6 site moved to new host.

The site had over 100 blocks configured.

There was a PHP error :PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change max_input_vars in php.ini. in Unknown on line 0"

The solution was to add to the php.ini file:

; How many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted
max_input_vars = 10000

abiyub’s picture

abiyub commented

Thank you @mikebrooks you comment
; How many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted
max_input_vars = 10000

Fixed the issue for me.