PHP Editor Replace

PHP Editor provides the means to easily find and replace lines of PHP Code or any other text. PhpED's Replace functionality is a part of NuSphere's PHP IDE Search and Replace features.

How to Replace Text in a single file open in PHP Editor

Select Replace on the main menu of PHP Editor to open Replace Text dialog box.
To find and replace the required text in the current document:

• Select Replace tab
• Enter text to search for / replace with. You can enter multiple lines of text if you need to search /replace a block of text. To switch to multiple lines mode please check Multiline search check box.
• Indicate whether the search should be case-sensitive
• Select whether the search should include only whole words that match the search text
• Indicate whether the search text should be treated as a regular expression
• Define the direction of the search (forward or backward)
• Define the scope of the search (global or selected text)
• Define the start point of the search (from cursor or entire scope)
• If you want to replace only the nearest occurrence of the search text, click OK
• If you want to replace repeated occurrences of the searched text, mark Prompt on replace check box - you'll be asked each time whether you want to replace the found text
• If you want to perform a global replace operation, simply click REPLACE ALL once you have entered your text strings.
• Press Ok button. Alternatively you can press Enter Key in single line search mode or CTRL+Enter in Multiline mode.

Searching results will appear in the Search Results window, by default located in the right-hand bottom of the main PHP IDE window. The example of the replace use is shown here:

How to Replace Text in multiple files

To find and replace the required text in files:

• Select Replace in files tab of PHP Editor. You can also open the Replace in files dialog box from the project and directory context menus on the Workspace tab.
• Enter text to search for / replace with. You can enter multiple lines of text if you need to search / replace a block of text. To switch to multiple lines mode please check Multiline search check box.
• Indicate whether the search should be case-sensitive, include only whole words that match the search text or whether the search text should be treated as a regular expression
• Define where to search for the text - in the active project, in open files only or in directories
• Specify the directory using the Browse button if directories search is selected.
• Define the file masks to find. The setting is available for search in the active project and directories. Use the semicolon as a delimiter, e.g. *.php3;*.php5;*.inc.
• Choose whether the subdirectories should be included or not.
• Press Ok button. Alternatively you can press Enter Key in single line search mode or CTRL+Enter in Multiline mode.

Searching results will appear in the Search Results window. For example, the picture below shows the results of running Search and Replace in PHP Editor using regular expressions. In this example Search Results Window is undocked:

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