By aridseas on

Tried everything, but every time now that I put an apostrophe in a page, and now even in links, there is a backslash before and after the apostrophes (\\\)

Here's an example:
http://aridseas.net/CMS/?q=Blackhat-SEO-Basics

Any ideas?

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lovedrupal6’s picture

lovedrupal6 commented

Cant see any on the link given

lovedrupal6’s picture

lovedrupal6 commented

Please let me know if you have corrected it.

similar problem on my site, for eg.:
"parrot", 'each' is being converted after saving the file to \"parrot\", \'each\'

Many thanks for help

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avelens commented

This issue almost make me crazy... I was trying everything to solve.. even installing fresh new Drupal sites (6.24 and 7.12) and happens again, so it's not a Drupal problem but a Hosting problem.
- So I solve this turning off magic quotes in php.ini (magic_quotes_gpc = Off) -
Something changed on the hosting side as this setting has been on for the last 4 years.

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dman commented

Submitted content ends up with garbage quotes and backslashes : \"\\ "\\\\ etc. A magic_quotes_gpc issue

Sounds like Bluehost (?) has migrated everyone to the PHP version where that change was made. A dozen different folk have been encountering this just this weekend.

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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jax_rox commented

Must be... I was working on a number of sites yesterday and didn't encounter this issue at all. Today, all three of the sites I was working have encountered the issue.

My magic_quotes_gpc is off already (set in php.ini), so I'm not sure how to fix it now. I can only assume there's something else going on. Perhaps I need to get onto my host.

For info sake, more slashes get added each time you save something - I was checking using a node's title and then realised I had apostrophes in the body of the node which now read as:

we\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ll

dman’s picture

dman commented

See that link I posted.
2 things.
* Yes, you get more slashes each time you save. That's described there in the first paragraph.
* PHPInfo is probably *lying to you* (described in that link) about the true state of magic quotes. That's the PHP bug.

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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jax_rox commented

Thanks, but checking root php.ini indicates that magic_quotes is actually set to off. Commenting out the section in .htaccess doesn't help either (as it's already off).

I tested setting magic_quotes to 'On' in php.ini and then commenting out the appropriate .htaccess files, this didn't work either - I have a Drupal 6 install that already has the magic_quotes lines commented out also still showing symptoms.
Also tried setting magic_quotes_sybase to On and commenting out in .htaccess again to no avail.

I'll have to get onto the host and see if I can find out what changes/updates were actually made, considering this issue only popped up yesterday.

EDIT:
Fixed by upgrading to PHP 5.3