[support] Strange characters in source of block

[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Anthony <tony at tony-mac.com> wrote:
> I got this blurb from Bluehost:
>
> "Some versions of Drupal have begun to display this problem with internal
> character escaping functionality. I suggest you contact their support,
> community forums or documentation if you wish a final answer as to the
> cause. Fixing the issue is very simple, you have two options stop the escape
> characters from being inserted:
>
> Change to PHP 5.3 and update your Drupal installation to the most recent
> version. This can be done in the PHP Config section of the cPanel. Simply
> click on the radio button to the left of PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.3 Single
> (depending on which php.ini behavior you prefer) and then save the changes.
>
> You may also disable magic_quotes_gpc in the php.ini. This is done by
> finding the php.ini that applies to your Drupal installation in the File
> Manager, and Editing it. Once inside, search (the ctrl+f find function is
> recommended) for the line magic_quotes_gpc=On and set this variable to
> magic_quotes_gpc=Off
>
> Note, the magic_quotes_gpc line may exist more than once, if so, duplicates
> should be removed."

As I said earlier, magic_quotes_gpc is turned off by the default
.htaccess given to you in the core Drupal site.  The only way that
this is not being used is if BlueHost has rebuilt PHP to disallow the
.htaccess setting of magic_quotes_gpc.  Also, note, that
magic_quotes_gpc is removed from more current releases of PHP so
depending on it is not a good thing.  I now need to check my sites I
suppose but I haven't had any noticeable issues yet.

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Earnie
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