Automated find/replace solution for scripts (php)

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I need a function/class/or some kind of sophisticated find/ replace solution for this problem

Have a huge form with lot of:

1: input tags like this one

 <input id="Id" name="Id" class="element text large" value="" type="text" />

which needs to be "changed/replaced" to this one

<div class="element text large" id="username"><?php echo $username_var; ?>&nbsp;</div>

(NOTE: input tag has more elements than DIV tag EG(value, type,name ))

2: also labels to div

<label class="description" for="username"><?php echo $username; ?></label>

to

<div class="description"><?php echo $username; ?></div>

(NOTE: label tag has one more elements than DIV tag Eg(for)).

Colin Fine · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-29 16:51:37Z

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It's not clear from your question whether this is a purely textual replacement (in which case preg_replace is your friend) or needs to perform some kind of parsing. If the latter, have a look at SimpleXML (though there are probably smaller parsers which would do the job).

answered Jul 29, 2010 at 16:51

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Kide Over a year ago

It's a second one. I'll look into SimpleXML ... Thanks!

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-29 16:53:38Z

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If you are on a linux box have a look at sed. It can do a find and replace very easily.

http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/ http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

answered Jul 29, 2010 at 16:53

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Chris Over a year ago

You can use the same features as said in Vim which has a windows version.

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