Hi Webmaster-talkers... I looking for some help here.... may someone can help me, I have thousand MB data already in text file (.txt) and i want to edit them instantly through php code, like find any text with AA and replace them to BB in all .txt format, that possible? and where i can found the script? at the past i edited one by one with manual used Macromedia Dreamweaver but that need very long time and very tired... i hopefully one of you can give me some input. Regards

And are these files located on a PHP enabled server?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

And are these files located on a PHP enabled server?

Yes. i think we can move it to php enabled server...
Regards

So if they are on your local machine just use something like EditPlus or NotePad++ to run through the files in situ and do the replace.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

So if they are on your local machine just use something like EditPlus or NotePad++ to run through the files in situ and do the replace.

for now i use Macromedia Dreamweaver but i think that wasted my time, i must open file one by one, if your file more than 6 MB there are need some extra time to open, not simply.

i think use EditPlus or NotePad++ will be same with Macromedia Dreamweaver in the proccessing data

and I believe that php code can do it with simply way and bit quickly.. that i looking for

Notepad++ will do a "Find in files" and it simply runs as a background task parsing all the files in the folder and subfolders until it runs out of work.

You will have problems with a php script timing out after 20 minutes.

PSPad also will allow regex search and replace features within files in a specified directory (only works with local files, not files through ftp).

Let talk about problem solve from phpcode here.. i think we have the possible way how to revealed it with php code... i have another opinion:

PHP Code:

foreach((array)@glob('/path/to/files/*.txt') as $f) 
  if(is_file($f)) 
    file_put_contents($f, str_replace("CC", "ZZ", file_get_contents($f))); 


above is the one php code that can find any text and replace them to what we want..

now how to expand it? like adding how to count replaced text or what filename can't open and echoing them