Can I use PHP to change HTML files on server-side?

[GoldenSpider]

I have thousands of static HTML files on server, but I wanna change a bit code to each one em now, can I do it via a PHP script? which function?
Thank You!

[Kevsh]

Why not use a global search and replace? HomeSite, for example, offers this feature and also supports regular expressions.

[Yahook]

http://scripts.xrenoder.com/sr.txt - try this script - description is in russian but if you know php a bit you can use it

Do you have ICQ?

[kernelpanic]

It shouldn't be too hard to homebrew one.

http://us4.php.net/function.file

http://us4.php.net/preg-replace


Open file -> replace all matched patterns -> output file

[WWC-Hagan]

i don't know if that can be done in PHP, but i have a PERL script that i use all the time to do tasks like that. hit me up on ICQ

[coolasafanman]

yes you can do it, but if you're asking how to go about it, you'd be better off using a text editor, downloading the files and doing a find/replace as suggested above. You'll also need to play around with fopen http://us2.php.net/fopen and file permissions might be an issue (chmod).