Issues Transfering Data Between Php Pages With Post

I am having an issue transferring values between pages in PHP using POST. I am using a hidden field at the bottom of a page to state how many items (rows of students) I have on the

Solution 1:

The maximum size of POST data that can be sent is a per server setting. For PHP/APACHE it can be set from the .htaccess as:

#set max post size
php_value post_max_size 20M

Under IIS you want to change the maxAllowedContentLength

See: http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/security/requestfiltering/requestlimits