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Answered Why all apostrophes and quotes are changed to \' and \"

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    podeig Reply #1, 14 years, 1 month ago
    Hello!

    Suddenly when I save any content (including chunks and snippets) all apostrophes and quotes has been changed to \' and \". When I save one more time it becomes \\\' test \\\".
    It destroys all my site. Everything worked well before.
    I have Evolution 1.0.6

    Why?

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

    [ed. note: podeig last edited this post 14 years, 1 month ago.]
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      sottwell Reply #2, 14 years, 1 month ago
      Something changed on your server; perhaps your hosting company upgraded the version of PHP. The problem is in a PHP setting, magic_quotes_gpc. This setting needs to be turned off. You may need to contact your tech support to find out how to turn it off.
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        podeig Reply #3, 14 years, 1 month ago
        Thank you for your answer.

        You were right magic_quotes_gpc was on. I have changed php.ini and turned it off. But I still have this problem.

        May be something more I have to change?
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          sottwell Reply #4, 14 years, 1 month ago
          If your server is using an Apache module for PHP (mod_php) then you have to restart Apache after making any changes to the php.ini file.

          Also, any items that you saved into the database won't be changed; you'll have to edit them and fix them.
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            podeig Reply #5, 14 years, 1 month ago
            I found that it is possible to use .user.ini with magic_quotes_gpc=off as content. Then I do not need to restart php. Thank you, sottwell, for your help! smiley