POST parameters sent by form but not present in php script - php

I have a strange problem. I'm sending a very large form with hundreds of fields. Basically I have no doubt there is no errors with the form itself because in firefox's console I can see in my request that the POST array is present :
-----------------------------14624305211779581122436169227
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BlocDocumentDocument[blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0][n0][file]"
34495153-98c5-4200-8545-2bb71d279ecd
-----------------------------14624305211779581122436169227
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BlocDocumentDocument[blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0][n0][title]"
asdf
-----------------------------14624305211779581122436169227
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BlocDocumentDocument[blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0][n0][description]"
-----------------------------14624305211779581122436169227
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BlocDocumentDocument[blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0][n0][datetime]"
2014-09-19 00:00:00
-----------------------------14624305211779581122436169227
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BlocDocumentDocument[blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0][n0][rank]"
1
But if in php I print_r($_POST['BlocDocumentDocument']['blocsTabulardocumentsTabularn0']) in the first line of php I get the following :
Array
(
[n0] => Array
(
[file] => 34495153-98c5-4200-8545-2bb71d279ecd
)
)
There are fields missing. And this problem seems to only occur if the form has a large amount of fields (I have the same form but with less fields (they're generated by javascript) and it works). I already tried to increase php's post_max_size and it didn't work.

I have found the problem. It was php's max_input_vars setting. By default it's 1000 in 5.3.

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array (
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'type' => 'application/octet-stream',
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I am posting a form with an image with Qt (which I do not think is important) and trying to same the image in the server but my php file keeps giving me the following error.
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I used tcp monitor to detect the messages and they seem to be fine and it is as follows.
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Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------723690991551375881941828858
Content-Length: 467204
Connection: Keep-Alive
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
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-----------------------------723690991551375881941828858
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-----------------------------723690991551375881941828858
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-----------------------------723690991551375881941828858
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<?php
$userMessage = $_POST["message"];
$imagefilename = $_POST["imagename"];
echo($userMessage.":".$imagefilename);
if($_FILES['imagename']['error'] == 0){
echo("Post is ready");
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}
?>
I am following following documentations but I can not get this to work. I appreciate if someone can give me a hint to solve the issue. I am using PHP 5.3.18 and apache 2.22.
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php
http://www.saaraan.com/2012/02/post-picture-to-facebook-user-wall-php
You've not completed your multipart request. Add this:
-----------------------------723690991551375881941828858--
to end of your post.
<?php $userMessage = $_POST["message"];
echo($userMessage);
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], "./{$_FILES['file'] ['name']}");
?>

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