Re: Using PHP for search and replace

Le lun 06/01/2003 à 06:35, Paul Gregg a écrit : > > perl -pi -e "s|^;extension=mysql.so|extension=mysql.so|" /etc/php.ini > > Is there a quick and easy way to do this kind of thing in PHP? Or would > I was about to say "Ask the RPM makers" until I saw who was asking :-) Everyone's doing that.. RedHat, SuSe, PLD, Mandrake... so obviously no RPM guy has ever tried something else ;-) > How about: > php -q -r '$lines=file("/etc/php.ini"); $f=fopen("/etc/php.ini", > "w"); \ > foreach ($lines as $line) { fwrite($f, preg_replace("/^;extension=mysql..so/",\ > "extension=mysql.so", $line)); } fclose($f);' I'll try that, thanks! > I presume perl is no longer a "standard" package installed with either > redhat or mandrake thus the question ? No, it's just that it's pretty weird to have a Prereq: perl in a PHP package. Imagine the irony, you install the best scripting language (PHP) and you need its competitor (Perl) to be able to use install it ;-) Jean-Michel