ReReplacer ComponentPluginLanguage

ReReplacer is a Joomla! component and system plugin that enables you to replace anything in your Joomla! site’s output with whatever you want.

ReReplacer will search the text (html) of your pages for your search request and replace it with what you have told it to do.
These replacements are on the fly. That means they are not permanent. They are done every time you request a web page in your site.

This gives you great possibilities and power to manipulate the output of your site.


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


WHY USE REREPLACER?
You can use ReReplacer for all kinds of stuff like:
* Add/remove/change elements in the html structure of your site
This can help you add extra ways to style elements or change the layout.
* Create your own plugin-like tags
You can use quick-codes and replace it with a long bit of text or html code.
Like: {copyright}, !contact_details!, [terms], __FOOTER__, etc.
Via regular expressions you can even make these dynamic, like:
{youtube 123abcABC}, {twitter}nonumber_nl{/twitter}, etc.
* Clean up unwanted html
Like: comment tags, meta-generator tag, unwanted copyright code from other extensions, etc.
* Replace simple words
Like: replacing the company name (for mirror sites), correct common spelling errors in your content, replace bad words with ***, etc.


WHAT REREPLACER IS NOT!
ReReplacer does not touch your database. The replacements are not permanent. So you cannot use ReReplacer to replace stuff for good.

It also does not touch the files. You cannot use ReReplacer to replace stuff in the (php) files of your site.


How to use it: http://www.nonumber.nl/rereplacer
Changelog: http://www.nonumber.nl/rereplacer/changelog

Keep up to date: http://www.nonumber.nl/news
Support forum: http://www.nonumber.nl/forum


Please do not use the reviews to post support issues. Use my forum for that.

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bysalzburg on November 22, 2009
Found it yesterday on your website while searching for some information about your other extensions.
Great thing the ReReplacer.
Made some tags do display articles or other stuff in a lightbox.
Needed a little bit trying before it did what I wanted to, but it's not to difficult.
Really cool thing. Keep on doing stuff like this :)
Owner's reply

Thanks. Yeah, to do the more exotic stuff a little regular expression knowhow comes in handy.

If you can't figure it out, you can always try my forum :)

This fixes a bug with SOBI2 and IE8 - upon trying to edit or add an entry, there was an error - HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917) joomla - refer to sobi forum topic for item configuration settings: http://www.sigsiu.net/forum/index.php/topic,14995.0.html
Owner's reply

Thanks for your review and noting the Domready -> load fix ReReplacer can do.

bysnooky147 on October 28, 2009
This guy is the best for our Joomla extensions!
So simple to use, and really well done, works perfectly, I'm French and discover "Nonumber extensions" yesterday, every one is usefull and should be in core joomla !
Thanks a lot !!
Snooky
Owner's reply

If even the French think my extensions are simple to use... :P

bypolarecliptek on October 24, 2009
Thanks a lot! I was looking for something to change the "Article Title" in the category list layout. After an hour of searching the joomla package, I searched the Joomla formum and found a post. Next time I will reverse this process! Thank you!
Owner's reply

Next time just go to my site and see if I have a solution ready :D

Replaces anything in your content and easy to use.

One enhancement maybe...
I wish there was a way to set up an item, then let the front-end user determine the replacement text, such as via a small form module. e.g. "Give this artilce a name", then their input replaces the current "articlename".
byZdravbadi on October 14, 2009
As I have already mentioned this extension I'm lovin' it. :)
Only one request (I have written it in the forum): the opportunity to exclude articles from the search and replace.
Thank you for the extension! Great support!
bybbw on October 13, 2009
Only used it once and it solved a big ole problem between Sobi and IE in under ten minutes. Not sure what else I can use it for yet, but it worked great this time!!
So many Joomla extensions are unwieldy and difficult to work with. ReReplacer enables me to correct this with ease.

You know how you look at the page source then dive into the extension files to try to figure out where to adjust, get rid of extra spaces, add styling tags, etc. Some extensions are brutal - Virtuemart is a good example. Great shopping cart, but it's very difficult to get back to where they do things to fix it at the source.

ReReplacer eliminates the need for that, for the cosmetic stuff, I just have to look at the source code, find the text I want to change, enter the current text and the desired text into ReReplacer and voíla! You can change HTML, content, restrict it to articles, or the head section or open it up to everything.

Peter, the guy who wrote this is brilliant, check his other very cool extensions and read his web site, he's a character.

Thanks for this great tool!
I tested ReReplacer on Joomla 1.5.14 Chinese version. It can't search and replace Chinese words. When I input Chinese keywords and press Save button, those Chinese keywords were turned into question marks(???).

Hope the author will improve this extension to support all languages. Thanks.
Owner's reply

That's exactly what my forum ids for. So if you have problems, please post them and we can see if we can fix it.

byGroverB on September 16, 2009
Sure beats messing with the database where one little error can really foul things up. With ReReplace just edit your item and errors are fixed on the fly.
This is a terrific component.
It saved me hours of work. It's also very cool that it doesn't touch the database so if I ever have to revert, I simply remove the code.

Excellent work on this little tool.

-Marc Sylvester
bymagickz on September 1, 2009
This extension just saved the life of my news workflow :D This way I am still able to use the excellent image captions plugin for JCE even though its output would destroy my frontpage layout, while it is wanted in the article view.

http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/forum/topic?f=30&t=15047&p=24510#p24508

ReReplacer is for me a perfect design tool that was still missing in my collection.
It's amazing that NoNumber! can offer so many professional quality components for free. He's an amazing developer.

ReReplacer Benefits:
- Very intuitive interface. I didn't spend any time reading manuals
- Runs perfectly. No time spent debugging goofy PHP errors
- Best support I've ever had (including commercial extensions). I had a feature suggestion and NoNumber! included it in the product the next day!

NoNumber! is a major contributor to Joomla. I highly recommend his extensions.
Owner's reply

Thanks for posting your feature request via my forum. I am glad you find it all intuitive. Creating a manual is somewhere on my todo list, but haven't got the time. You just gave me an excuse to push it further down the list ;)

with this component sky is your limit.
Easy to install and use ,
Really great support. I am using rereplacer from few months. I do not have any problem with the rereplacer.
Owner's reply

Thanks, Sai. You know the sky already starts just above the ground. So 'the sky as the limit' is not very high! :P

bymagj on August 19, 2009
I just surprised!
So easy to install ,configure and use. You can do everything to the output code of your site. Even I overcome an IE bug (Domready thing) with this.

All of Peter's extensions are great and the support is impressive.
Thanks
Hello,

I have installed the component/plugin with ease. It was so simple and is a wonderful tool, which I like a lot. Just replacing a word or a phrase and not having to worry about editing files is very easy and time saving.

Thanks for your fast response in the forum.
Kelley
Owner's reply

Wait till you start experimenting with manipulating whole html structures... you can change the output of (3rd party) extensions to your likings and not touch a single file.

byalledia on July 23, 2009
This one extension has probably saved me more time than every other Joomla extension I've used ... put together. We had to migrate a large site to Joomla 1.5 with 10,000s of hand-written pieces of code that were unique to Joomla 1.0. ReReplacer allowed us to search and replace them all inside of 10 minutes. 5 thumbs up!
this is a very useful must have joomla component. saves having to manually hack code. it works right out of the box without further configuring. thanx to the developer.
bybarthle on July 12, 2009
This component is really a very valuable hidden treasure. It is sad that it is not promoted enough. Everyone should be aware of this. I wish it had been selected as editor's pick.

I was ready to pay even $150 for such a component. I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

It can be used in many different ways as outlined. However one less promoted feature is the one which really rocks: it can be used as "Autolinker". However all the autolinker components can be used for articles only. But this great component can reach literally everywhere: Kunena Forum, JomComment, MyBlog.

Let's say you want to give a definition of concept in another page, without having to leave the article. You create a page for the definition of the term, and give a one time link to this page. So every occurrence of this term is automatically linked to its definition in a small cool thickbox pop-up. All you have to do is load mootools/modal library in template index and in the replace field give the link accordingly for modal pop-up.

It's just incredible. Our site is small, I hope it can have the same performance as it grows.

Thank you very much for such a great component.
Owner's reply

I am not stopping you from paying me $150 :)

byCarpeNoctem on July 11, 2009
This Tool helps me in different areas. I replace Meta-Tags under different circumstances which can not be done easily in Joomla itself.
And it gives me any easy way to change the way the Joomla Output is ordered. I use it for putting some special links from the content into a navigation area. Thank you very much for this perfect work!
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