Can't find text in source files
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:31 am
WARNING: Newbie ahead!
Hi folks.
I have some programming experience in ASP, but my introduction to PHP is going to be via trying to make some elementary modifications to an existing website. Well, At least I think they're elementary.
The first thing I want to do is fix several mistakes such as spelling and syntax errors, stuff like that. Basically, the results of carelessness by the original programmers. I figured that shouldn't be too hard to do even for me -- just search and replace.
There's a MySQL database involved and I can handle that OK (I just love HeidiSQL). And I'm using an old version of Dreamweaver as my editor, just because that's what I've got and I'm familiar with it.
So my initial problem is this...
I use Dreamweaver to search through all the site files for the text that I want to fix. For example, on the webpages viewed in a browser there are several instances of "Thankyou" instead of "Thank you". But I search the entire site for "Thankyou" and no results are returned. I also searched the entire SQL database with the same result.
The compiled pages that these errors reside on don't actually exist, they only show up as something like:
http://domainname.com/foldername/?id=150
Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction?
Hi folks.
I have some programming experience in ASP, but my introduction to PHP is going to be via trying to make some elementary modifications to an existing website. Well, At least I think they're elementary.
The first thing I want to do is fix several mistakes such as spelling and syntax errors, stuff like that. Basically, the results of carelessness by the original programmers. I figured that shouldn't be too hard to do even for me -- just search and replace.
There's a MySQL database involved and I can handle that OK (I just love HeidiSQL). And I'm using an old version of Dreamweaver as my editor, just because that's what I've got and I'm familiar with it.
So my initial problem is this...
I use Dreamweaver to search through all the site files for the text that I want to fix. For example, on the webpages viewed in a browser there are several instances of "Thankyou" instead of "Thank you". But I search the entire site for "Thankyou" and no results are returned. I also searched the entire SQL database with the same result.
The compiled pages that these errors reside on don't actually exist, they only show up as something like:
http://domainname.com/foldername/?id=150
Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction?