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, Anthonytony@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.