[Damo]

I just noticed any URL links to the AZ board aren't working because forum now sits in www.auszookers.com/forum

I'm guessing that will get changed back at some stage and the links will then work fine, I thought i'd mention it just in case.

[royce]

I have been looking for a way to do this and if anyone else wants to google and help feel free

So far I can grab the text from big lists of links like in Good Tech and find replace them and repost them to clean them up, but I havent come up with anything to do the entire forum automagically, I tried making a word censor thing but it wants to change the lot as a link is one string

If anyone finds a solution on google post it up

If people come across links that need to be updated for a good reason quickly, maybe try the report post function and indicate that, I am not sure how the report thing works yet but I am sure it will tell somebody

For editing

Code:

replace
http://auszookers.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=

with
http://auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=

[Damo]

royce wrote:

I have been looking for a way to do this and if anyone else wants to google and help feel free

So far I can grab the text from big lists of links like in Good Tech and find replace them and repost them to clean them up, but I havent come up with anything to do the entire forum automagically, I tried making a word censor thing but it wants to change the lot as a link is one string

If anyone finds a solution on google post it up

If people come across links that need to be updated for a good reason quickly, maybe try the report post function and indicate that, I am not sure how the report thing works yet but I am sure it will tell somebody

For editing

Code:

replace
http://auszookers.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=

with
http://auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=

If I may quote Stekkie, "you frucked it!"

Sounds like you need to write a script that will do a find & replace on the entire database.

[royce]

Yeah I figure its some kind of database thing but that sounds a bit easy to break so it can wait till later I think

[steve]

yeah you could do a find and replace on just the database table phpbb_posts . I'll add it to the bottom of the list, it might happen in 6 months

[fritter]

You can do it with str_replace in PHP, but it will need a little extra programming so that it doesn't break links added after the upgrade.
Are you using a MYSQL backend? Might be easier to use an SQL script.

[royce]

yeah its mysql, there is a script that will fix em as a one time thing, but its a long list and only effects people who search, who will be smart enough to fogire it themselves anyway