How to extend magento product category limit from 1000 to 5000 in magento by php.ini

Question

I need to extend max input var in magento for increasing category product limit. On 1000 product my category is not working with more than 1000 product...

I need to extend max_input_vars in Magento without touching php.ini file...

In index.php I have put this:

ini_set('max_input_vars', 3000);

is it good for increasing max_input_vars for Magento?

I'm using VPS and on that it is restricted to touch or change php.ini

So I need to put my code in index.php. I just want to know if that is fine.

Or any good solution please.

Answer 1

instead of changing the max_input_vars I think it's better to fix the issue in Magento.
This way you won't depend on the environment settings.
You can find here a complete solution. It involves rewriting the saveAction of the product admin controller and instead of using parse_str (the function that depends on max_input_vars) you just parse "manually" the data sent through post.