Annie, I am sure we can solve this by having you log in to their Unix server and running a simple script. This is, in fact, a perfect job for the Unix stream editor sed, which accepts patterns of the form s/old/new/g to replace all occurrences of "old" with "new". (the trailing 'g' applies it globally, meaning more than once in a single line, if applicable)
But before we do this, it's always smart to back up all the files we're about to tweak. Just in case. :-) To do that, run this command:
$ tar czvf php-file-backup.tgz ./*.php
This will create a new file called "php-file-backup.tgz" that's a compressed 'tar' archive of all the files. If something goes south and things don't work, you can always unpack and restore all the PHP files with
tar xzf php-file-backup.tgz).
Now, ready for some shell script programming? Open up an editor (vi, pico, emacs, whatever) with the new name "fixphp.sh", and type in the following:
#!/bin/sh
cd the directory that contains the files you want to fix
for fixme in *php
do
sed 's|/www/dadsrights/|/nfs/www/dadsrights.org/|g' $fixme > new
mv new $fixme
echo fixed $fixme
done
exit 0
That's it. Now, save this out and execute it by feeding it to a subshell:
$ sh fixphp.sh
You will want to make sure that you've specified the correct directory in the script as you've typed it in, of course.
Once you run the script, you should see a list of 'fixed xx, fixed yy' and when it completes, all your PHP include_once() directives should be working fine.
Good luck!
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Edit-in-place to the rescue!
perl -i -p -e 's/\/www\/dadsrights\//\/nfs\/www\/dadsrights.org\//g' *.php
Change the -i to -i.bak if you want foo.php to be saved as foo.php.bak before the changes ar emade