A little utility script to perform search and replace on the whole da…

…tabase.

It's not linked from anywhere yet.

I'm not sure if this will work on PostgreSQL ... can someone test that?

admin/replace.php

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+<?php /// $Id$
+      /// Search and replace strings throughout all texts in the whole database
+
+require('../config.php');
+
+$search  = optional_param('search', '');
+$replace = optional_param('replace', '');
+
+require_login();
+
+if (!isadmin()) {
+    error("Admins only");
+}
+
+###################################################################
+print_header('Search and replace throughout the whole database', 'Replace text within the whole database');
+
+
+if (!$search or !$replace or !confirm_sesskey()) {   /// Print a form
+
+    print_simple_box_start('center');
+    echo '<div align="center">';
+    echo '<form action="replace.php">';
+    echo '<input type="hidden" name="sesskey" value="'.$USER->sesskey.'">';
+    echo 'Search whole database for: <input type="text" name="search"><br />';
+    echo 'Replace with this string: <input type="text" name="replace"><br /></br />';
+    echo '<input type="submit" value="Yes, do it now"><br />';
+    echo '</form>';
+    echo '</div>';
+    print_simple_box_end();
+    die;
+}
+
+
+if (!$tables = $db->Metatables() ) {    // No tables yet at all.
+    error("no tables");
+}
+
+print_simple_box_start('center');
+foreach ($tables as $table) {
+    if (in_array($table, array($CFG->prefix.'config'))) {      // Don't process these
+        continue;
+    }
+    if ($columns = $db->MetaColumns($table, false)) {
+        foreach ($columns as $column => $data) {
+            if (in_array($data->type, array('text','mediumtext','longtext','varchar'))) {  // Text stuff only
+                $db->debug = true;
+                execute_sql("UPDATE {$CFG->prefix}$table SET $column = REPLACE($column, '$search', '$replace');");
+                $db->debug = false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+print_simple_box_end();
+
+print_continue('index.php');
+
+?>