Can I bulk fix PHP require/include references?

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

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

$ sh fixphp.sh

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!