My host updated to PHP 5.3.8 - Evolution 1.0.5 breaks - Now what?

My host recently updated their servers to use PHP 5.3.8 and now my evolution installs are acting up. I am getting the dreaded insertion of backslashes before quotes as if Register_Globals is on but it is not.

Can anyone help with this situation please as my host is only interested in getting me to install Revolution and I do not wish to at this point without a great deal of work needed for three domains!!!

Thanks in advance

The backslashes might also be from gpc_magic_quotes, however in most cases the hosting provider normally provides methods to change which PHP version the site uses. This option varies from host to host, who is your hosting provider?

Cheers

Thanks Charles. Done that already both magic_quotes and register_globals are off...

If magic_quotes_gpc are off in the Manger folder you won't get the extra slashes - at least from the Manager, anyway. Sorry, but that's the only way the extra slashes will be applied. If you're getting the extra slashes, it's because magic_quotes_gpc is on in the folder containing the script being run.

Check the phpinfo() display from the Reports->System Info menu item. A custom php,ini file in one directory (such as the web root) won't have any effect on any other directory (such as the /manager/ directory); they are not inherited as .htaccess directives are.

Can you post your PHP info output? I'm running 5.3.6 and 5.3.8 on various servers and have not run into any problems.

Cheers

PHP 5.3.8

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Build Date Oct 4 2011 12:45:47
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I've just noticed that magic_quotes_gpc is still on...

try turning off from the root .htaccess file

Hi Charles. I cannot do that, my host does not allow for that.

They just turned it off though by request but now this is happening:

mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London' for 'BST/1.0/DST' instead

Any ideas?

Thanks