Updates Not Appending if too Long(FIXED)

The Problem
I was having an issue where I had a lot of options being entered, but saving the updates either would not show the changes, would add extra blank rows with a zero sort order, or some options data would vanish.

The Solution
After going through the WP error logs, I found that the data wasn’t getting appended properly because the PHP.ini file limits database submissions to 1000 characters long by default. So I had to go into my server settings and update the PHP.ini file to adjust this to 2,000 characters. After making this change, I had no further issues. Hope it helps someone!