select which options to update in options.php

[filosofo]

Problem: use wp-admin/options.php to update your options, and if you have a lot of options (like I do), you'll end up with many truncated (or null) options, as your server chokes trying to update all of them.

Solution: Check which options you want to update, instead of trying to update all of them.

Patch attached.

[markjaquith]

Could even do it AJAX style.

[markjaquith]

Tried the patch. I like.

+1

[markjaquith]

This has been obviated, in my mind, by [4382] (trunk) and [4384] (2.0.x). The main reason options.php was choking was that it was processing a bunch of huge object arrays, like for active plugins and those big RSS cache arrays. It's worlds faster now that serialized data is skipped.