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FoxTextReplace

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Description

This recipe uses a Fox form to let you replace text strings on multiple pages.

Create a page with this Fox form:

(:foxmessage:)
(:fox frm foxaction=replace put=all target='{$$(plist {$$pat})}' foxtemplate="{$$new}" mark='{$$mk}':)
||table width=600px
|| Replace text string:||(:input text mk size=40:) ||
|| With this string:||(:input text new size=40:) ||
|| On Target Pages:||(:input text pat size=40:) ||
|| ||(:input submit post 'Replace Now':) ||
Notes: you can specify several target pages (space delimited),\\
or use wiki wildcards (* and ?) in target page names.\\
Example:\\
'''Test.*''' to replace string on all pages in ''Test'' group. 
(:foxend frm:)

The form will look somewhat like this (non-functional example):

The target field accepts wiki wildcard target names. Make sure not too many pages are targeted, because otherwise Fox will be stopped before ending with an PHP timeout error.

Make sure Fox is permitted to perform a replace foxaction on the target pages. You may need to set $FoxPagePermissions for this in config.php (see Fox#security). Be aware of the security risks of allowing such action.

All occurences of the text string found will be replaced. If you only wish to replace the first occurence in a page, you should replace in the form put=all with put=string

Notes

Release Notes

• 2008-12-08: initial release

If the recipe has multiple releases, then release notes can be placed here. Note that it's often easier for people to work with "release dates" instead of "version numbers".

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See discussion at FoxTextReplace-Talk