If you do not already have a php.ini file in your Drupal root follow these simple steps from Christopher to override the setting and turn off magic quotes...<div><br><div><br></div><div><div style="padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;padding-top:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;border-top-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;border-right-width:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','DejaVu Sans','Bitstream Vera Sans',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;border-left-width:0px;background-image:initial">
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- Create a blank text file and add the line:<br><code style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(246,246,242);font-size:0.923em;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-bottom:1px;padding-left:1px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono',Monaco,'Lucida Console',monospace;line-height:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;background-repeat:initial initial">magic_quotes_gpc = Off</code></p>
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- Save the text file as "php.ini" (without the double quotes)</p><p style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.385em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
- Upload the php.ini file to your Drupal root directory.</p><p style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.385em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Anthony <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony@tony-mac.com" target="_blank">tony@tony-mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Bluehost mail to me<br>"Hi,<br>
It is a drupal problem in the fact that drupal was written to work on a
centos environment and that a change from centos 5 to centos 6 results
in the problems you experienced.<br>
Its a known bug with drupal and yes, we did make the upgrade, but it is still a drupal issue with the centos 6 environment.<br><br>
You have two options to stop the escape characters from being inserted:<br>
<div><br>
1. 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.<div><br>
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.<br>
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2. You may also disable magic_quotes_gpc in the php.ini.<div><br>
This is done by finding the php.ini that applies to your Drupal installation in the File Manager, and Editing it.<br>
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<br>
<br>
</div></div>Here is a thread on the drupal forums themselves that goes more into detail about the problem and some fixes: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1437998" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/1437998</a><br>
"<br>Tony<div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Joel Willers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.willers@sigler.com" target="_blank">joel.willers@sigler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm on BlueHost and I experienced the problem on an updated installation of D7 and D6. It was very annoying, and the fact that Drupal automatically turns it off really made it difficult to diagnose. Sadly, Drupal's attempts to turn it off failed, and I needed to edit the php.ini file in the server root to turn it off. Simple enough, but it sure was a pain to figure out. It's all better now, though.<br>
<div><br>
Joel<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">support-bounces@drupal.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd<br>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 7:01 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org" target="_blank">support@drupal.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [support] Strange characters in source of block<br>
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</div><div><div>On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Jamie Holly <<a href="mailto:hovercrafter@earthlink.net" target="_blank">hovercrafter@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> There was some chatter on Twitter about this happening on HostMonster<br>
> suddenly on Friday. Apparently them and BlueHost are connected. I've<br>
> got a couple client sites that haven't seen the problems yet, but it<br>
> makes you wonder if they aren't rolling out some change.<br>
><br>
<br>
I'm on BlueHost and don't see a problem yet. I've a D6 site that is aggregating RSS into nodes and they are usually filled with quote characters.<br>
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