XF 2.2 Convert PHPBB (Old) design codes that blend into the text

[canina]

I imported the forum, and there are old style codes in the posts that blend into the body of the text. So:

[align=justify][font=Calibri,sans-serif][font=Arial,sans-serif]abcd efg.[/font][/font][/align]

How should you clean it?

Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

You can use this add-on to tidy up post content.

Post Content Find / Replace

This is a direct port of the original Post Content Find / Replace add-on for XF 1.x. You may wish to search the original resource discussion for solutions to common tasks performed with this add-on.

xenforo.com

Or if you are comfortable running direct queries, you can do that instead, but you would have to ensure you remove the opening and closing tags, without affecting valid bb code.

 

[canina]

You can use this add-on to tidy up post content.

Post Content Find / Replace

This is a direct port of the original Post Content Find / Replace add-on for XF 1.x. You may wish to search the original resource discussion for solutions to common tasks performed with this add-on.

xenforo.com

Or if you are comfortable running direct queries, you can do that instead, but you would have to ensure you remove the opening and closing tags, without affecting valid bb code.

When I run a search in this plugin I get an error

ErrorException: [E_WARNING] preg_match_all(): Empty regular expression in src/addons/XFPR/Admin/Controller/PostReplace.php at line 41

1. XF::handlePhpError()
2. preg_match_all() in src/addons/XFPR/Admin/Controller/PostReplace.php at line 41
3. XFPR\Admin\Controller\PostReplace->actionReplace() in src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php at line 352
4. XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchClass() in src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php at line 263
5. XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchFromMatch() in src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php at line 115
6. XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchLoop() in src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php at line 57
7. XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run() in src/XF/App.php at line 2353
8. XF\App->run() in src/XF.php at line 524
9. XF::runApp() in admin.php at line 13

From looking here it seems that the plugin is not intended for large forums, and really my forum is huge.
what is to be done?