Install issue for Pligg - Escaped characters

**BoredFlip** · 11-30-2010, 09:03 PM

I am getting this for both v 1.1.2 and 1.0.4.

Has anyone experienced this issue before?

I have a local install of Pligg using WAMP but when I upload to the server to do a fresh install it seems to want to escape out the characters. The links to the install.php file also appears with escaped characters.

If anyone has a php.ini file example, I can maybe try to match it on my server.

Thanks everyone.

**Yankidank** · 12-01-2010, 12:46 AM

Does this break the install process, or is it just a cosmetic issue? I haven't seen this happen before, nor have I heard of it happening to any one previously.

**BoredFlip** · 12-01-2010, 04:02 AM

Originally Posted by Yankidank

Does this break the install process, or is it just a cosmetic issue? I haven't seen this happen before, nor have I heard of it happening to any one previously.

It does break the install process as it renders the install link (for example English) with escaped characters as well. While it attempts to install, the SQL INSERT statements looks like they are escaped as well. An error is then thrown.

This is also the first time I've seen it. I've installed it before on a VPS server and it went over fine.

If anyone has any ideas I'll take a run at it.

**BoredFlip** · 12-01-2010, 05:02 AM

[SOLVED]

I compared the php.ini file and I noticed that the following was set to "On":
magic_quotes_runtime = On

I set it to:
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

I restarted Apache and it worked.

From what I read it said it relates to runtime-generated data.