I have been given the task of updating a rather ugly, dated site, that has info on hundreds of cities, all of which sit on their own subdomain, for example:
london.sitedomain.com
The plan is to get rid of all these subdomains and set the site up properly as pages, in this format:
sitedomain.com/london
Unfortunately, there is a mass, hardcoded list making up a dropdown menu, looking something like this (but with hundreds):
<a href="http://sydney.sitedomain.com">Sydney</a>
<a href="http://auckland.sitedomain.com"> Auckland</a>
<a href="http://melbourne.sitedomain.com"> Melbourne</a>
<a href="http://perth.sitedomain.com"> Perth</a>
<a href="http://wellington.sitedomain.com"> Wellington</a>
If I set this huge list up as a php string, is there a decent way to change, in bulk, every subdomain substring into the correct format, as stated above? Or is there a better solution you can think of?
I think you’d be better off using a search and replace in a program like Notepad++ or Sublime Text. Both can do a regular expression search and replace of a folder (and subfolders.) I don’t think PHP would be the best solution to this for a bunch of hard coded links (it could be done, but is much easier and more reliable this way.)
Use the following regular expression:
You could potentially do that in PHP with those search and replace fields, but if you just need to change a bunch of HTML files then I think using a text editor is much better.