[support] Strange characters in source of block

[Jamie Holly]

There was some chatter on Twitter about this happening on HostMonster 
suddenly on Friday. Apparently them and BlueHost are connected. I've got 
a couple client sites that haven't seen the problems yet, but it makes 
you wonder if they aren't rolling out some change.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 4/30/2012 3:18 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 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.
>