By Cameron Little on

Hi,

I'm running a drupal 7 installation (from local computer to server with backup/migrate module) and whenever I edit content, it adds a \ in front of the ' and " characters. When I look at the source, it's actually adding \ in front of " .

I have php version 5.2.9 and drupal 7.0. This happens both with and without ckeditor through the wysiwyg module.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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Kirk’s picture

Kirk commented

Sounds related to some sort of php filter. "\" is used to escape " in php. http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

TribalMan’s picture

TribalMan commented

Having the same problem. Any suggested fixes? I put some HTML in a block to make a button. Now there are backslashes before and after my elements. Sometimes it adds up to three before and after an element.

Regards,
TribalMan
Green, Holistic Web Marketing Solutions - Cape Town

TribalMan’s picture

TribalMan commented

I fixed this by changing my php.ini file disallowing "magic-quotes"

Regards,
TribalMan
Green, Holistic Web Marketing Solutions - Cape Town

techlizard’s picture

techlizard commented

I was having the same problem.

Editing the php.ini and turning off magic_quotes fixed it for me too.

Suncho’s picture

Suncho commented

Hi Cameron. I'm having the same problem when editing blocks. Backslashes are getting added before quotes. I started by creating the site on my local Apache server, then I exported the database from there and imported it onto my remote web server (also Apache). Everything worked fine until I went to edit a block. Editing pages doesn't exhibit the problem.

Did you ever figure out a solution?

Thanks!

mmrtnt’s picture

mmrtnt commented

I encountered this the other day and in my case, it was the result of this config value in php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

My hosting provider (HostMonster, http://www.hostmonster.com) upgraded CentOS 5 to CentOS 6. Why this affected PHP, I'm not sure.

They were very helpful and all I needed to do was use their online tool to create a new php.ini file and make sure that the magic_quotes_gpc flag was "off".

Also, I found this workaround while looking for a fix that can be used in case your php.ini is not editable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3117512/prevent-automatic-add-slashes...

Good luck.