I could have sworn that there was already something that did this, but recently I needed to search and replace on a long list of wiki pages and I couldn't find anything, so I wrote a script. It needs some work but here's the basic code (it only works in the main namespace right now):

<?php /* searchreplace.php Find and replace using preg_replace from a list of pagenames

*/

# get the options from the command line # argv[0] is the script name if (!isset($argv[1])){ echo "USAGE: php searchreplace.php -c <config file> -p <pagename file> config file defines $pattern, $replacement, $wikipath if you don't want to deal with regex from the shell php searchreplace.php -w <path to wiki> -p <pagename file> list -f <find regex> -r <replace text> \n\n pagename file is a list of page names\n\n"; exit; } $options = getopt('c: w:p:f:r:'); $page_list = $options['p'];

if (isset($options['c'])){ require_once($options['c']); }else{ $wikipath = $options['w']; $pattern = $options['f']; $replacement = $options['r']; }

print_r ($options);

# check that they are OK if (is_file("$wikipath/AdminSettings.php")) { require_once ("$wikipath/AdminSettings.php"); require_once ("$wikipath/maintenance/commandLine.inc");

}else{ die ("can't find AdminSettings.php - bad wiki path or AdminSettings.php doesn't exist"); }

$infile = fopen ($page_list, 'r'); if (!$infile) die ("can't open $file\n"); while (!feof($infile)){ $page_name = trim(fgets($infile, 4096)); if (trim($page_name) != ''){ $title = Title::newFromText($page_name); if (!is_object($title)) { echo "can't find $page_name\n"; continue; } $old_page = get_wiki_text($page_name); $new_page = preg_replace($pattern, "$replacement", $old_page); echo "$pattern \n\n $replacement \n\n"; echo "$page_name\n\n$old_page\n\n $new_page\n\n"; $new_page = str_replace('\n',"\n",$new_page); $article = new Article($title); if (isset ($new_page) && $new_page != '') $article->doEdit ( "$new_page", 'Edited by wikibot', EDIT_UPDATE | EDIT_FORCE_BOT ); } }

function get_wiki_text($page_name, $ns = 'NS_MAIN'){ $title = Title::newFromText($page_name, $ns); $revision = Revision::newFromTitle($title); if (! $revision) return false; return trim($revision->getText()); }

?>

Usage example:

trimer:/usr/local/phpwikibots jimhu$ php5 searchreplace.php -c searchreplace/config_test.php -p searchreplace/test.txt

searchreplace/test.txt is

Sandbox

searchreplace/config_test.php is <?php

$wikipath = "path to the wiki"; $pattern = "/foo/"; $replacement = "bar";

?>

On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Reizer Gábor wrote:

Hi,

I have a lot of tables in the following format: {| class="wikitable" ... |}

I want to replace these with the following: {|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ... |}

How can I do this? What could be the quickest solution?

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