mass change text at all posts

[dimitris]

well, i need a hack that it make a mass change at the users posts one word to another.

I mean, a hack which i will give a word , like dady, and it changes as "Mamy" at all the post. This hack is like chensorship (there is NOT advansed censorship for 3.5.x yet), but for now a mass change text hack will be ok.

It will be usefull for some old bbcode word, or some old hacks from 3.0.x

Maybe this change can be and from db. I can find the order to find all the post which has a specific word from a db, and is:
SELECT `pagetext` FROM `post` WHERE `pagetext` LIKE '%dady%'

......but i dont know what must to do to change all the inside at posts text "dady".

Thx for your time

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by dimitris

well, i need a hack that it make a mass change at the users posts one word to another.

I mean, a hack which i will give a word , like dady, and it changes as "Mamy" at all the post. This hack is like chensorship (there is NOT advansed censorship for 3.5.x yet), but for now a mass change text hack will be ok.

It will be usefull for some old bbcode word, or some old hacks from 3.0.x

Maybe this change can be and from db. I can find the order to find all the post which has a specific word from a db, and is:
SELECT `pagetext` FROM `post` WHERE `pagetext` LIKE '%dady%'

......but i dont know what must to do to change all the inside at posts text "dady".

Thx for your time

You'll need a custom script to make this work. Huge loop select / change / update / close times XXXX

Is this something you need 1 time or does it need to be structural?

One time the performance isn't that important so you could fix it with a simple

$textstring = str_replace( 'mammy','daddy ', $textstring );

in a loop and directly update

[Marco van Herwaarden]

[sql]update post set pagetext = replace(pagetext, 'old', 'new') WHERE pagetext LIKE '%old%';[/sql]
The above query will work. Make sure to backup your database before trying.
If you use post caching, you might also need to empty your post_parsed table.

[dimitris]

Works MarkoH64

Thx a lot

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by dimitris

well, i need a hack that it make a mass change at the users posts one word to another.

I mean, a hack which i will give a word , like dady, and it changes as "Mamy" at all the post. This hack is like chensorship (there is NOT advansed censorship for 3.5.x yet), but for now a mass change text hack will be ok.

It will be usefull for some old bbcode word, or some old hacks from 3.0.x

Maybe this change can be and from db. I can find the order to find all the post which has a specific word from a db, and is:
SELECT `pagetext` FROM `post` WHERE `pagetext` LIKE '%dady%'

......but i dont know what must to do to change all the inside at posts text "dady".

Thx for your time

Use replacement variables...