title: Extra backslashes being added in PHP
body: <p>My <sub>crappy</sub> web host did some upgrades the other day and some settings have gone awry, because looking at our company's wiki (MediaWiki), every quote is being escaped with a backslashes. It's not even just data which is being posted (i.e.: the articles) which are affected, but also the standard MediaWiki text. For example,</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You\'ve followed a link to a page that doesn\'t exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info). If you are here by mistake, just click your browser\'s \'\'\'back\'\'\' button.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The first thing I did was disable <code>magic_quotes_gpc</code> AND <code>magic_quotes_runtime</code> using a <code>.htaccess</code> file, but this is still occurring. My <code>php_info()</code> reports this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Setting             Local Value   Master Value
  magic_quotes_gpc        Off            On
  magic_quotes_runtime    Off            On
  magic_quotes_sybase     Off            Off
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>