need to replace part of all the links in html code

[kee2ka4]

Hi peeps,

I have a a large number of pages in which I want to replace parts of links within it. I will give you an example: I have pages that have the following link:

<a href="www.siteone.com/picLib/myPic">My Pic</a>

I want to replace the domain www.siteone.com to www.sitetwo.com so that the a href tag to be as shown below:

<a href="www.sitetwo.com/picLib/myPic">My Pic</a>

I need to replace all the links accross a large number of pages. I did use the following javascript code to change all the siteone links to sitetwo:

function fixLinks() {
 var replacementURL = "http://www.sitetwo.com";  // URL to change to
 var lookfor = "http://www.siteone.com";      // Text to look for 
 var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
 for (i=0;i<links.length;i++) {
   if (links[i].href.indexOf(lookfor) > -1) links[i].href = replacementURL;
 }
} 

The html body onload tag ran the above script but it changes the whole link instead of part of the link. So the link: www.siteone.com/picLib/myPic will change to www.sitetwo.com instead of www.sitetwo.com/picLib/myPic


Any Ideas on how to do this

Thanks,
Ket

[mintedjo]

function fixLinks() {
	var replacementURL = "http://www.sitetwo.com";  // URL to change to
	var lookfor = "http://www.siteone.com";      // Text to look for
	var regexp = new RegExp("^"+lookfor+"(.*)$", "i")//Make a little regex
	var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
	for (i=0;i<links.length;i++) {
		tmp = links[i].href;	//Get the href
		links[i].href = tmp.replace(regexp, replacementURL+"$1"); // replace it
	}
}

[TheBearMay]

In this case you can actually simplify it to:

function fixLinks() {
	var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
	var replacementURL = "www.sitetwo.com";  // URL to change to
	var lookfor = "www.siteone.com";      // Text to look for
	for (i=0;i<links.length;i++) {
		links[i].href=links[i].href.replace(lookfor, replacementURL);
	} 
}

[mintedjo]

Nvm

[Jgy3183]

Though you can do this in JavaScript (though it would have to run after all your elements have loaded), I suggest you actually change the source code of the files itself. I would use a program that can globally find and replace in a folder. Dreamweaver, for example can do this.

-J