Replace a word in a post WITHOUT using Variable Replacement Manager

[Pedro!]

I basically want to do what I discussed in the VB forum here. I'm sure there's a better way than what Steve is suggesting (writing to the creator of all the mods I have installed (about 7)).

[Eikinskjaldi]

Rather than making a mass change to the real underlying posted text you would be better adding a mod which changes the postparsed text. Once you have updated your post cache it means that every view of that text will have the formatting you want, but you are not mucking around with the original data.

If it were me I'd be adding a str_ireplace('iSketch','<h1>iSketch</h1>,$text) either directly into /includes/class_bbcode.php or as a plugin to same.

If this is still causing problems with "links on the main page" (not sure what that means) then you could use preg_match/preg_replace to perform a more stringent replacement.

However, if you really want to change the original data (and this wont help with future occurences) then you can do it via mysql

update post set pagetext= REPLACE(pagetext, 'iSketch', '<h1>iSketch</h1>');
Doing it via mysql will be
1) slow
2) irreversible
3) not solve the forward replacement problem.

[Pedro!]

I'd really like to use the php_bbcode.php method as it's just what I'm looking for and I'm not at all knowegable in making products.

Could someone please tell me where to put the code in the file? (just same me the time of combing through 2000+ lines of PHP.

Thanks for your help so far!