ReReplacer
Version
5.4.4 (last update on May 15, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
97
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
12 March 2008
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.
* Replace "Domready" with "load" for IE compatibility of your scripts
* Replace your image (media) urls with a CDN url.
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. You can use my other extension DB Replacer for that.
It also does not touch the files. You cannot use ReReplacer to replace stuff in the (php) files of your site.
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How to use it: http://www.nonumber.nl/rereplacer
NoNumber extensions require php 5.3+
See for more requirements: http://www.nonumber.nl/rereplacer#requirements
Support forum: http://www.nonumber.nl/forum
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Please do not use the reviews to post support issues. Use my forum for that.
sometimes, Great Things CAN be Free and ReReplacer falls under Great Free Thing. I have been using ReReplacer for some time now on J15 website and now, I am in need for a ReReplacer version that works in J17. I am waiting patiently but I cannot guarantee I can wait for a long time. Where is my ReReplacer for J17?. This is one of the best of the best extension and I want you to know right now and right here that 'YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THIS EXTENSION'. Please note that I am not yelling here but just trying to get my point across.
One more time, where is my ReReplacer for J16?. Please hurry!!!
One more time, where is my ReReplacer for J16?. Please hurry!!!
I found out this extension on a forum which people discussing Internet Explorer error : " HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)"
I used this extension to replace "domready" expression which causes problem in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 with expression "load" to solve the problem.It worked !!!
This extension rocks.It is excellent extension.
Thank you developer.
I used this extension to replace "domready" expression which causes problem in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 with expression "load" to solve the problem.It worked !!!
This extension rocks.It is excellent extension.
Thank you developer.
Today i realized that i haven't yet wrote a single review for this man's awesome extensions, and i use them literally on a daily basis!
My country officially uses two alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic one.
ReReplacer spared me from trouble of adding every article twice to our website, by automatically replacing Latin characters with Cyrillic ones.
After i got an idea for using this component for this problem, i contacted Peter and asked him how could i achieve this, and he has put me on the right direction in a matter of minutes.
I created an xml file with character replacement list, created a link which sets a simple cookie when clicked on, and set the Publishing Assignment PHP field to read the cookie, and voila!
We have thousands and thousands of articles on our website and i can only imagine what a pain it would be to have to add two versions of articles manually each time.
As i wrote already on another Peter's extension review, the support you get from him is unmatched by any commercial extension i've used until now!
Thanks man!
My country officially uses two alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic one.
ReReplacer spared me from trouble of adding every article twice to our website, by automatically replacing Latin characters with Cyrillic ones.
After i got an idea for using this component for this problem, i contacted Peter and asked him how could i achieve this, and he has put me on the right direction in a matter of minutes.
I created an xml file with character replacement list, created a link which sets a simple cookie when clicked on, and set the Publishing Assignment PHP field to read the cookie, and voila!
We have thousands and thousands of articles on our website and i can only imagine what a pain it would be to have to add two versions of articles manually each time.
As i wrote already on another Peter's extension review, the support you get from him is unmatched by any commercial extension i've used until now!
Thanks man!
This is much better than the plugin from Abivia. Very flexible and versatile
We have been converting a very large old site to joomla. One of the problems we had to address was adding acronyms to a large number of pages in order to make the pages 508 compliant. This component has handled the job handily and will reduce development time for future pages. Many thanks to the developer.
All NoNumber extensions are very useful. I start my sites with most of them installed by default and ReReplacer is one of them. Keep them coming Peter :)
I had been searching some methods to remove footer links of some components. suddenly i saw in some forum about rereplacer. This exactly does what it says. It can replace anything in the frontend or backend. I used the html code displaying some footer and replaced it with a blank and as expected that footer vanished.
Thanks a lot to develop such a nice extension.
Thanks a lot to develop such a nice extension.
This is an amazing plugin, I nearly have my whole site XHTML 1.0 strict and AAA L3 WCAG accessibility validated in a couple of hours, and I've got a lot of pages too. I would like to marry this plugin and have it's babies.
Cool extension. You surely can do any imaginable replacement task. There are tooltips all around but some of the many options are not completely self-explaining. Anyway: it's real fun to play around with this extension, and it works for me perfectly.
Owner's reply
Thanks!
If you don't understand certain options, please don't hesitate to ask me. If you think there should be changes to descriptions (tooltips), also let me know. Any change to make things clearer / better is welcome :)
In my business I use a lot of shorthand, it's a lot easier to type three letters instead of 16. ReReplacer takes my three letter code and displays it as the full 16-letter text everywhere on my web site.
A must have!
A must have!
I had filed ReReplacer in the back of my mind for a time when I needed it - then was at my wits end for a couple of weeks until I remembered. Fixed my "little problem" in about two minutes.
If there is no other way, ReReplacer is the ultimate way to get rid of generated code that is making your life miserable. Don't make the mistake I did. Download and install it today, for when you need tomorrow.
Thank you, Peter!
If there is no other way, ReReplacer is the ultimate way to get rid of generated code that is making your life miserable. Don't make the mistake I did. Download and install it today, for when you need tomorrow.
Thank you, Peter!
This is an amazingly easy to use and very powerful component. Thank you so much for this great piece of code!
I used it for replacing a link in a section list layout pointing to a category listing with a link pointing to another section listing.
E.g.: You have section A with categories I II III and section B with categories I II III, where conent of section B is really subordinate to content in section A.
Now you have a section listing for section A which shows the categories with links to their listings like:
category I
category II
category III
But actually you want to have the link to category AII point to a section listing for section B instead of pointing to a category AII listing.
Before I discovered ReReplacer it was not possible to do in Joomla! core (at least I wouldn't know how). Now I just replace the link to the category AII listing with a link to a section B listing. In the category AII description I have information about section B.
This is an easy way to accomplish unlimited nesting of sections within categories without having to use a CCK extension.
Saved me a lot of headaches. Thanks again!
I used it for replacing a link in a section list layout pointing to a category listing with a link pointing to another section listing.
E.g.: You have section A with categories I II III and section B with categories I II III, where conent of section B is really subordinate to content in section A.
Now you have a section listing for section A which shows the categories with links to their listings like:
category I
category II
category III
But actually you want to have the link to category AII point to a section listing for section B instead of pointing to a category AII listing.
Before I discovered ReReplacer it was not possible to do in Joomla! core (at least I wouldn't know how). Now I just replace the link to the category AII listing with a link to a section B listing. In the category AII description I have information about section B.
This is an easy way to accomplish unlimited nesting of sections within categories without having to use a CCK extension.
Saved me a lot of headaches. Thanks again!
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