Find and replace text in all files using PHP

Question

Hi Everyone,

I have list of PHP files in my project.If I want to replace index.php text to home.php and save it. It will change in all my PHP file in the directory How can I code this.

I can find and replace in single file but I don't know the way to search in whole directory and replace Kindly help me to know the way. Im new to this section.Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use glob to get all files in a directory, glob(__DIR__.'/*.php') will give you all php files in current directory. But if you need to do this in a production server only use it if you can run it as a command line function since the web server not should have write access to the files

Answer 2

The scandir() function might be the function you are looking for.

Returns an array of files and directories from the directory. (php.net)

Answer 3

If you run PHP on Linux. The quickest way to replace file content is using sed command.

find PATH -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/index.php/home.php/g' {} \\;

PHP code:

exec("find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/index.php/home.php/g' {} \;");