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.

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 on regular expressions, I recommend Regular-Expressions.info

Handle with care!

Because you can replace/remove all kinds of things, you can potentially break your site. It is not wise replacing words like 'html', 'body' or (parts of) words that are used in inline scripts.

However, the cool thing is: all replacements are not permanent. So when you turn off the plugin or remove the replacement, your website is back to the original state.

Also, there are some nifty features enabling you to replace stuff without replacing in fragile areas like in tags and outside the html body.

Examples

You can download an Example Pack with a couple of ready to use examples. You can change these to your liking and add as many new items as you want.

Some idea's where you can use ReReplacer for:

• Filter bad words on your site (Example Pack 1).
• Replace smiley tags by images ( [:wink:] becomes ) (Example Pack 1).
• Temporarily hide text from your website, without actually removing it (Example Pack 1).
• Remove redundant whitespace from your code, making your website load faster (Example Pack 1).
• 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...

Example codes

If you have or need any more examples, please e-mail me!

Syntax

Here is an overview of extra codes you can/should use in different situations.

Syntax	Description	Input example	Output example	Normal	Regex	Search	Replace
[[comma]]	Use instead of a comma. Use normal comma's to create lists.	[[comma]]	,
[[space]]	Use for leading or trailing spaces (otherwise they will get stripped).	[[space]]
[[counter]]	This places the number of the occurrence. If your search is found, say, 4 times, the count will show respectively 1 to 4.	[[counter]]	1
[[random:...-...]]	This places a random number within the given range.	[[random:0-100]]	70
[[date:...]]	Date using php strftime() format.	[[date:%A, %d %B %Y]]	Thursday, 09 February 2012
[[user:id]]	The id number of the user (returns empty if not logged in)	[[user:id]]	123
[[user:username]]	The login name of the user (returns empty if not logged in)	[[user:username]]	peter
[[user:name]]	The name of the user (returns empty if not logged in)	[[user:name]]	Peter van Westen

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

Screenshots

ReReplacer - Items list

ReReplacer - Item settings

Tutorials

• 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)