php stripping angled brackets from html - Help!

rolysatch

i have a php program i use to make posts to my wordpress blogs. all of a sudden i'm getting strange results when posting to my blogs. the posts are being posted without the < and > (angled brackets) and " (quotation marks) of html in the posts, everything else is normal.

e.g. post should be: <p><a href="http://somesite.com">hello</a></p>

but i am getting: pa href=http://somesite.comhello ap

i recently upgraded apache to 2.2.10 and rebuilt php/mysql etc and i'm wondering if there is some new security fix that has something to do with it. or alternatively does anyone know a function in php.ini i may have changed without realising that may have caused the angled brackets and quotation marks to be stripped from my posts?

this is something related to the server/php/apache as opposed to the script or wordpress as that has been working succesfully for a long time without problems and i haven't changed the wordpress version.

any help gratefully appreciated

thanks in advance

roland

bpat1434

PHP itself doesn't strip anything out. Apache doesn't do anything with the request except send it to the proper script(s). My guess is there's a wordpress setting that's messed up. The only function that I can think of that would do that is str_replace or preg_replace since [man]striptags/man would actually remove the "p" and "a" from within the tags and [man]htmlentities[/man] or would turn < into <

rolysatch

thanks for your reply. i've just found what possibly could be the problem, there's possibly a bug in libxml2 that is eating angled brackets out. i'm going to check how to downbgrade my version of libxml2 without breaking directadmin and see if that does the trick. i'll post my results.

thanks again 🙂