Question

I have an old drupal site that I’d like to upgrade, but I need to move all the site data files (like jpgs, gifs, etc.) from /files to /sites/default/files.

I’d like to use a PHP script or just a MySQL command to find any instance of /files/* and change it to /sites/default/files/* (without messing up the string in the * part of the name, of course!).

Is this pretty easy to do? Any pointers on a function I could use?

Answer 1

MySQL does have some built-in string replacement functions. How about something like this?

UPDATE table SET field = REPLACE(field,'/files/','/sites/default/files/');

There’s other functions you can use for more complex replacements (ie. regular expressions) if you need as well.