How much is a lot? Is it more than the size of the database field?

On 17 Mar 2017 4:54 p.m., "Tobias Wedel" notifications@github.com wrote:

Steps to reproduce the issue

I build my own plugin and i need to save a lot (And i mean a lot!) of text
in a textarea. It seems that if i save to much text that this error occur: Error
decoding JSON data: Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded

I tried it with different extensions like modules and put a lot of text in
a textarea. This error occur always.
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I just checked it out and it seems that its more than the size of the database field. It cuts the params value. Is there a way to handle the size?

Hello,

You will need to setup your own table and extend JForm to use this new form and save to The new database.

It sounds like you may be better using a component and having the plugin interact with the component if your saving that much data.

Many thanks
Tony

Closed as its not a bug