What is the maximum storage?
.... sorry for such a basic question I couldn't find the answer in PHP manual
I don't think there is a maximum storage capacity, but I have noticed that if you try to use a command like echo on an extremely large string it tends to slow your script down to a crawl.
I don't believe there is a limit per say. However, the overall PHP process is limited by the
memory_limit setting in PHP.INI. So I would think that the actual usable memory by any one string would be somewhat lower memory_limit.