Regexp - replace PHP2 with PHP4

DeSoto

Hi,
I've been programming in PHP for a couple of years now, but I've never really learned regular expressions. I know the basics, but now when I really need it, I can't seem to make it work.

I have about 200 files with PHP2-code that I need to upgrade to PHP4. All files have includes like this:

<? include "somefile.inc">

And I need to replace this with:
<?php include('somefile.inc'); ?>

I've tried to google on it, but there are just tutorials for the most basic reg exps, which I already know. So can anybody help me out here? 🙂

Weedpacket

There is a program to carry out the conversion bundled with PHP 3.0 (at least, there is according to this page - which reckons that you'll need to read it). PHP3 would be somewhere around here.

Going from 3.0 to 5.1 (or 4.4) would not be so straightforward (the differences are semantic, not syntactic).

DeSoto

Well, I don't really need a converting program, since it's only simple includes and some short open tags that needs to be fixed. And since I'm not that great with reg exp I'd really like to know how to do it. Is there no-one who knows?

laserlight

By the way, you could turn it into:

<?php include "somefile.inc"; ?>

The parentheses are unnecessary, so you dont have to tweak that part of the script. You could even leave out the terminating semi-colon in this case.

DeSoto

Yup, I know, but I don't want to. Looks better with the parantheses and the closing semi-colon.

kakki

// read source-code in $fileContent
$pattern='#<? include "(.*)">#msiU';

preg_replace( $pattern, "<?php include ('\1'); ?>", $fileContent );

tbbd

It sounds like you are wanting to replace some text with (the way you have the include wrote now) with some other text (the new way of writing the include)...
if that is what you are wanting to do, there is a program called UltraEdit that will do a text replace for you in multiple files..... basically you search for "abc" and replace every instance with "abcdef", it will do it for every file you have open in the program (which opens multiple files in tabs), or even a whole directory. I use it to write al my programs with, even does the auto tabbing when making loops or functions, etc...and color codes commands for whatever program language you tell it you are writing in.
Hope that helps