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Post Content Find / Replace 1.0.0
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Floyd R Turbo
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These worked for me, scroll back a few posts where I describe the instances, they seem similar to yours, and you will need a few regexs to fix them all
Post Content Find / Replace
Post Content Find / Replace
Post Content Find / Replace
Post Content Find / Replace
I was wondering if someone can help me.
I just mirgated from IPB 4 to Xenforo & there are a lot of messed up things. I was wondering if I could gather them, & just simply remove them, not replace them.
Examples:
I have emoticons all over the place that are broken, code -
I was wondering if I could take out all emoticons that use code like this.
Also all attachment images weren't brought over & there is code like this -
I would really appreciate me if someone could help me. I have installed this plugin, i just wanna remove all this ugly broken code so I can make my forums live again.
Thank you
I just mirgated from IPB 4 to Xenforo & there are a lot of messed up things. I was wondering if I could gather them, & just simply remove them, not replace them.
Examples:
I have emoticons all over the place that are broken, code -
Code:
[IMG]http://<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/default_biggrin.png[/IMG]I was wondering if I could take out all emoticons that use code like this.
Also all attachment images weren't brought over & there is code like this -
Code:
<a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_08/2015-08-20_14.58.15.png.87e9fcdea39c41a67cbbd956c114dcaa.png">[IMG]http://<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_08/2015-08-20_14.58.15.thumb.png.b47d2f0c4bf6fa299eabc2a13459fb23.png[/IMG]</a>I would really appreciate me if someone could help me. I have installed this plugin, i just wanna remove all this ugly broken code so I can make my forums live again.
Thank you
Floyd R Turbo
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I had a similar issue when I did a DNN conversion. Except it was way, way worse. Hard to explain.
But if your old forum referenced a specific directory, or at least a main directory with various sub-directories, there is definitely a way to bring all those pics back. For instance, the term <fileStore.core_Attachment> is likely a field in the old software that specifies what directory the pics are stored in. So find that folder on your old server and move all the pics to a directory in your XF root and call it oldphotos or something, then use the find/replace to replace that whole messy string with a URL that points to that photo is a way the resolves it (displays it) as a photo. It's possible, as long as you can find a definitive pattern that references the files the same way, every time.
In my conversion...everything was buried in 3 tables that cross-referenced each other in a "secure" way so that there was no way to actually figure out what the URL location of a file was based on the link. Took me forever to figure out the pattern and files were buried in directory trees, it was a mess.
As far as the emoticons, if you can find the same pattern, that's an easy one to fix. All you care about is 'biggrin.png' and so you can find the code that looks like that everywhere and replace each instance with the default XF smiley. I have to do this as well yet.
But if your old forum referenced a specific directory, or at least a main directory with various sub-directories, there is definitely a way to bring all those pics back. For instance, the term <fileStore.core_Attachment> is likely a field in the old software that specifies what directory the pics are stored in. So find that folder on your old server and move all the pics to a directory in your XF root and call it oldphotos or something, then use the find/replace to replace that whole messy string with a URL that points to that photo is a way the resolves it (displays it) as a photo. It's possible, as long as you can find a definitive pattern that references the files the same way, every time.
In my conversion...everything was buried in 3 tables that cross-referenced each other in a "secure" way so that there was no way to actually figure out what the URL location of a file was based on the link. Took me forever to figure out the pattern and files were buried in directory trees, it was a mess.
As far as the emoticons, if you can find the same pattern, that's an easy one to fix. All you care about is 'biggrin.png' and so you can find the code that looks like that everywhere and replace each instance with the default XF smiley. I have to do this as well yet.
Warchamp7
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Hey @Kier, I'd like to run this on quite a sizeable forum. Any chance you'd consider adding the batch processing? :[
Edit: It actually didn't time out while pulling up 20,000+ posts that matched in test mode, well alright then
Edit2: Okay, actually trying to save and apply the change does not work out as well
Edit: It actually didn't time out while pulling up 20,000+ posts that matched in test mode, well alright then
Edit2: Okay, actually trying to save and apply the change does not work out as well
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adwade
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In playing around with this add-on, I managed to end up with some entries like this:
It's only in my first test import so no damage done, but to better understand how this works could anyone give me a Regular Expression and a Replacement String to change these entries back to just
UPDATE: Thanxx ChrisD, that worked just perfectly! Now, on to study more about Regex at http://www.regextester.com
Code:
[[SIZE=1]]It's only in my first test import so no damage done, but to better understand how this works could anyone give me a Regular Expression and a Replacement String to change these entries back to just
Code:
[SIZE=1]UPDATE: Thanxx ChrisD, that worked just perfectly! Now, on to study more about Regex at http://www.regextester.com
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Varma
Member
It would be really great if some one can help me out on this, as i'm not at all good at regular expression and strings.
I need to convert Image urls from imgur from http to https
So for example need to convert all imagur links in post -
I have found the Regualr expression to use from Stackoverflow as ((\[IMG\].*?\[/IMG\])|(\[IMG=.*\](.*?)\[/IMG\]))
That correctly brings up all the bbcode with the imgur link, but how to replace only the http string with https?
I need to convert Image urls from imgur from http to https
So for example need to convert all imagur links in post -
Code:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hydfg.jpg[/IMG] to [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/hydfg.jpg[/IMG]I have found the Regualr expression to use from Stackoverflow as ((\[IMG\].*?\[/IMG\])|(\[IMG=.*\](.*?)\[/IMG\]))
That correctly brings up all the bbcode with the imgur link, but how to replace only the http string with https?
Floyd R Turbo
Well-known member
How about a Tapatalk signature removal regex?
Something that can take this
And replace it with a blank (delete it)
Since every default signature is different (Samsung, iPad, etc) it would be good to search for all instances that start with "Sent from my" and end with "using Tapatalk" and remove those along with whatever is inbetween.
Is this possible, and if so, what's the QF/R/R?
Thanks ahead of time!
Something that can take this
Code:
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAnd replace it with a blank (delete it)
Since every default signature is different (Samsung, iPad, etc) it would be good to search for all instances that start with "Sent from my" and end with "using Tapatalk" and remove those along with whatever is inbetween.
Is this possible, and if so, what's the QF/R/R?
Thanks ahead of time!
0ptima
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Floyd R Turbo
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Yes but why not just post it here, because here is where I asked for it.
Quick Find:
Regular expression:
Replacement String: nothing
And, yes it works. Unless you have a post that contains only the "Sent from my" text (resulting in a blank post)- this will give you an error, but then just run it again (as a test) and click the first one. That will be the post, manually edit it or just delete it, and run again.
You lose Tapatalk.
Quick Find:
Code:
tapatalkRegular expression:
Code:
/Sent from my (.+) using Tapatalk/iReplacement String: nothing
And, yes it works. Unless you have a post that contains only the "Sent from my" text (resulting in a blank post)- this will give you an error, but then just run it again (as a test) and click the first one. That will be the post, manually edit it or just delete it, and run again.
You lose Tapatalk.
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0ptima
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What do you want me to post? Someone elses content?
Floyd R Turbo
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If you know what the answer is, yes. Anyways, it doesn't matter...
0ptima
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Floyd R Turbo
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gotcha
SimonV
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I've searched this thread but couldnt find any suggestions on how to go about this one:
I have an vBulletin imported forum that contains some HTML Table bbcode such as this thread: REMOVED
I'mwondering if anyone has managed to find a solution to replacing this with a suitable replacement so that the data is still presentable and responsive.
I have an vBulletin imported forum that contains some HTML Table bbcode such as this thread: REMOVED
I'mwondering if anyone has managed to find a solution to replacing this with a suitable replacement so that the data is still presentable and responsive.
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EQnoble
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You have two options
Brogan has a set of table bbcodes but I don't remember off the top if they are responsive or not but knowing him, if they are not I would say they would be fixed or min-width and be contained inside a side scrollable element. For that you would need to convert the html to the corresponding bbcode which is possible with only a few potential caveats involved in the regex replacement process.
You could alternatively create your own custom bbcodes and then post replace to suit those new bbcodes.
But yes the replacement is possible though one that is more complicated if you want to do proper checks to make sure you are only replacing actual tags and not random post data that contains any of the basic syntax associated with html tables.
I have done this post-import for a member here (importing from a system that had pure html in posts) so it is indeed possible 100%.
If you are not already versed in regex this is probably not the one you want to attempt yourself but if you want to clone your site and give it a whirl I say go for it.
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foolist
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Hi, new here to the community. We're trying to figure out how this works?
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-content-find-replace.1549/
We have unfortunately ran into an issue where there are weird symbols in many of our posts and I want to remove them out of the posts as they look incredibly bad and make reading a bit difficult.
How would I use that product linked above to remove all  from our posts?
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-content-find-replace.1549/
We have unfortunately ran into an issue where there are weird symbols in many of our posts and I want to remove them out of the posts as they look incredibly bad and make reading a bit difficult.
How would I use that product linked above to remove all  from our posts?
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