Find and Replace a string in more than one text file in PHP

Question

i found this code:

<?php
$path_to_file = 'c:\wamp\www\FindReplace\File.txt';
$file_contents = file_get_contents($path_to_file);
$file_contents = str_replace("Paul",",HHH",$file_contents);
file_put_contents($path_to_file,$file_contents);
?>

It's working very well if it's only one file but how to do if i want to Find and Replace in all *.txt file of my folder?

THank you

Can you use [sed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed) or it's required to be done with php? — , Oct 18 '11 at 11:53
`foreach(glob('/path/to/*.txt') as $filePath) { your code above }` — Gordon, Oct 18 '11 at 11:55
possible duplicate of [Get the files inside a directory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1086105/get-the-files-inside-a-directory) — Gordon, Oct 18 '11 at 11:57
possible duplicate of [How to add wildcard names to directory search in php](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7774127/how-to-add-wildcard-names-to-directory-search-in-php) — genesis, Oct 18 '11 at 11:58
if you are on windows you can just open a command prompt, cd to that folder and do `REN * *.jpg` — Gordon, Oct 18 '11 at 12:23

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 12:01

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What about this? It should take care of running your replace on all .txt-files, regardless of how many sub-folders you got in your path folder.

$path = realpath(__DIR__ . '/textfiles/'); // Path to your textfiles 
$fileList = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path), \RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);

foreach ($fileList as $item) {
    if ($item->isFile() && stripos($item->getPathName(), 'txt') !== false) {
        $file_contents = file_get_contents($item->getPathName());
        $file_contents = str_replace("Paul",",HHH",$file_contents);
        file_put_contents($item->getPathName(),$file_contents);
    }
}

answered Oct 18 '11 at 12:01

Industrial

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i Have an error on line2 ( ! ) Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' – Pacific Oct 18 '11 at 12:19
Well, you would want to wrap your path with quotes, ie. ` – Industrial Oct 18 '11 at 14:55
Cool, thanks, this has really helped me a lot to change and saved too much of work and time, Great stuff! Though I have one more doubt, I have 3 to 4 lines to be replace one shot, is there any way to do it? – sammry Apr 26 '15 at 00:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 12:01

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find /path/to/your/project -name '*.txt' -exec php yourScript.php {} \;

Then modify your script to use command line argument $argv[1] as the file path.

answered Oct 18 '11 at 12:01

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genesis · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-18T12:03:09.317

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You can use useful glob(), internal PHP function

$files_in_your_folder = glob('c:\wamp\www\FindReplace\*');

So for your specific case:

<?php
foreach(glob('c:\wamp\www\FindReplace\*') as $path_to_file) {
    $file_contents = file_get_contents($path_to_file);
    $file_contents = str_replace("Paul",",HHH",$file_contents);
    file_put_contents($path_to_file,$file_contents);
}
?>

edited Oct 18 '11 at 12:03

answered Oct 18 '11 at 11:54

genesis

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– Pacific Oct 18 '11 at 12:04
Thank you Genesis it's working well it was my mistake, sorry – Pacific Oct 18 '11 at 12:43

Find and Replace a string in more than one text file in PHP

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