Comments on: Search and Replace text in whole MySQL database

By: alberto

alberto — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:47:02 +0000

Great script! thanks a lot.
I have just one suggestion.I used this script to do a search and replace in my magento db, and some column names have reserved words, so I needed backticks in order to make it work.Just changed
$sql[$handle]['sql'] = 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET `'.$field.'` = REPLACE(`'.$field.'`,''.$search.'',''.$replace.'')';
and
$sql[$handle]['sql'] = 'SELECT * FROM '.$table.' WHERE `'.$field.'` REGEXP(''.$search.'')';
on lines 88 and 90

By: Urselinho

Urselinho — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:46:54 +0000

Thanks alot…will save me a lot of time!!!!

By: PerfectAnswer

PerfectAnswer — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:55:12 +0000

Thank you for sharing this great script!
Runs like a charme, very well inline documentation, good looking output.
Very Happy with your script.
Regards from Hamburg/Germany
Bernd

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:38:55 +0000

Thank you! You saved me load of time.

By: Ligi

Ligi — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:17:54 +0000

Just used it on the live site, one thing to keep in mind : if the replace involves image names in the database, then you will have to adjust the filenames of the images on the server….

By: Ligi

Ligi — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:40:46 +0000

great, tnx a million! my client changed all their flower names in a CMS. I was hoping not having to do it manually….

By: Sacameunojo

Sacameunojo — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:45:47 +0000

Voodoo!!!

You are my hero!

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:25:43 +0000

I used the script with GUI – many thanks for your part in this. Pure genius to a person like me, who has only a centimeter worth of knowledge (kilometers wide though), but I can still drown in code more than a line deep.

By: Netflow Developments » Blog Archive » How to do a global search and replace within a DB across all Tables

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:11:32 +0000

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By: walmley website design

walmley website design — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:33:25 +0000

I recently wanted to replace a string within MySQL on the fly, but the field could contain 2 items. So I wrapped a REPLACE() within a REPLACE(), such as:

REPLACE(REPLACE(field_name, “what we are looking for”, “replace first instance”), “something else we are looking for”, “replace second instance”)

This is the syntax I used to detect a boolean value:

REPLACE(REPLACE(field, 1, “Yes”), 0, “No”)

Hope this helps!