ReReplacer

Description

With ReReplacer you can replace whatever you want in your entire site.

It can work on the entire output of your site, so you can also do replacements in things like the meta tags.

Some idea's where you can use ReReplacer for:

• Filter bad words on your site.
• Replace smiley tags by images ( [:wink:] becomes   ).
• Temporarily hide text from your website, without actually removing it.
• Remove redundant whitespace from your code, making your website load faster.
• Use abbreviations in your content and replace them with the full text (J! becomes Joomla!).
• Quickly place whole blocks of text by only typing one word. Like you can use [stats] and replace it with a piece of Google Statistics code. Or [footer] to put a fixed bit of text under articles. You can change the replacement in one place (in ReReplacer) and your whole website is updated!
• Create your own custom tags ([mytag]some text[/mytag] becomes some text).
• Tweak the output of Joomla! without changing the core files.
• etc...

Regular Expressions

You have the ability to use powerful regular expressions to search and replace. This opens up endless possibilities. You can do virtually everything with ReReplacer.

For documentation on regular expressions, ReReplacer comes with a Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet (under the Syntax Help button). 

For more info on Regular Expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
For testing them: http://gskinner.com/RegExr

Note: More and better documentation coming soon...
For now, please see the old documentation.

Other Tutorials, Guides and Videos

• NoNumber Power² - The power of combining NoNumber extensions
  Video Presentation by Peter van Westen (that's me!) (20 August 2011 - Joomla Days South Africa)
  Covers: ReReplacer, Sourcerer, Articles Anywhere, Modules Anywhere, Snippets
  
  
• Make Sitewide Replacements With ReReplacer
  Video and Tutorial by Ed Andrea (Open Source Training) (17 June 2011)
  
  
•  An Overview of Joomla! Extensions from NoNumber
  Video Tutorial by ContiCreative.com (30 March 2010)

Requirements

ReReplacer will only work correctly if your setup meets these requirements:

• Up-to-date version of Joomla! 1.5 or 2.5
• PHP 5.3+ No PHP 5.2 support
• MySQL 5+

Important: I can only provide support for setups that:

• meet the above requirements;
• do not have extension files or Joomla! core files which have been altered in any way.

Open Source License

ReReplacer is an Open Source Joomla! extension. It is in compliance with the GNU/GPL license:
GNU General Public License, version 2

Joomla! is also Open Source.