I'm exporting an old release 1.9.2 and importing to 3.0.2.
Each module has dozens of videos that I play via an URL/link, which points to my own .PHP program on the site (and that wraps a Camtasia video).
I found that in 3.0.2, the link opens on a separate page, unless I edit each link by going to "Appearance", then "Display" and setting it to "Embed".
So I would like to write a mySQL update script to automatically set this flag for all such links (I will add a where clause to my script name).
I checked database in PHP/MyAdmin, and didn't see any likely table names.
You should attempt to use the admin tools to update everything, go to your moodle installation's main URL.
Then go to the site administration. After /admin in the url, add /tool/replace and go there.
You can there enter what you want to find in the db, and replace it with another value. Just be carefull with this tool and make a backup before you begin.
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I am making a copy of a WordPress website on another server. Everything is OK in copying the database.
However, I need to replace the old domain name "old.com" with "new.com" in some MySQL tables. I am using the following query:
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value, 'https://old.com/', 'http://new.com/')
This works for a lot of things (like the site URL), however, it breaks all my CSS modifications to the template and all my options, it's sort of restored into default settings directly after I run the previous command.
What could be the reasons?
When moving a Wordpress table the Database Search and Replace Script by interconnect/it does the job very well.
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
The software is designed for exactly the purpose of replacing olddomain.com with newdomain.com.
All you do is extract Search Replace DB to it's own directory off the root of the Wordpress installation. You then run
newdomain.com/Search-Replace-DB-master
This will automatically find your Wordpress database and will provide search and replace field. It allows a dry run where you can check the results before doing the live run.
Hope this is useful. I have used this many times when changing the domain for a Wordpress installation and it works every time.
Never manually replace URL use https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/ plugin to safely search & replace old URL with new one.
Im trying to figure out a way to update some of my images in my database which are pointing to the wrong place. It was easy to do with the images which were in the wrong subfolder as I could just use a simple plugin to search for http://url.com/sub1/folder/ and change to http://url.com/sub2/folder/
But these are in root, so http://url.com/image.jpg and need to be http://url.com/sub2/folder/image.jpg
Can I use phpMyadmin to search for http://url.com/*.jpg and replace with http://url.com/sub2/folder/*jpg or another method?
Recent versions of phpMyAdmin have a find and replace feature which sounds like it might be what you're after.
This can be located by going to the table you wish to search and clicking the Search tab, then Find and Replace. Put your old URL in the "Find" field and new URL in the "Replace with" field, and click Go to preview the changes. It never hurts to have a backup of your data when making changes.
I have a Wordpress Multisite installation, and the root domain is set to root-domain.com. I would like to switch it with one of the sites of the network (site-in-network.com), and make it a root domain.
This way site-in-network.com would become the root domain, and root-domain.com would become one of the sites in the network (100+ sites).
I've done search and replace on a database before, and it worked, but I was dropping a domain all together, so I just replaced domain-a.com with domain-b.com. This time it is different, I want to keep both of them, and just switch the positions in the database.
I guess I would need to run a MySQL query. As far as I know, the root domain was set to something like "www.root-domain.com", and all other sites in the network were like "site-in-network.com" (without the .www part)
The database is about 0.5GB, so it would be good to get it right the first time.
Thank you in advance for any info.
It can be done with a search and replace, but mind you that wordpress is also storing site information in a serialized form in the tables. That means that a default search and replace will break a lot of stuff, so be careful with that.
There is however a script that takes this into account: http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Download it and put it in your root folder. (And afterwards, delete it!!)
Using this script you could change root-domain.com to root-domain.tmp.com and then site-in-network.com to root-domain.com. After that you could rename root-domain.tmp.com to site-in-network.com. Basicly what Plamen Nikolov suggested to do in the first place.
Here is a little bit of a craftily solution:
You can still workaround the situation with the find and replace technique using fake domain name:
Replace site-in-network.com with some-fake-unique-name.com
Replace root-domain.com with site-in-network.com
Finally some-fake-unique-name.com with root-domain.com.
There is also solution without changing the database, by definining HOME and SITE URL like here: Changing the Site URL
My application stores its data in an Access 2010 database (accdb) file. It's password protected, which means it's encrypted w/ AES-128.
I'd like to add some meta data to the file that's publically available. This way older verisons of my application can investigate the file to see if it's even worth trying to open. Otherwise, they'll just get the dreaded "Unrecognized Database Format" error, which is usually associated with file corruptions.
In Windows, you can right-click on a file, click "Properties" and see attributes under the Details tab. I'd love it if I add attributes like the version of my application that last touched the file, and maybe other details. I'd like to avoid having a different file extension for each version of my app!
Is it possible to add some public meta data to an encrypted Access 2010 database?
You can add custom database properties : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q178745
You can change the file extension of an encrypted Access database and change the properties for that extension. The extension .enc is fairly descriptive and does not seem to be widely used.
The file will open normally when clicked and ask for the password. The icon will be recognizably Access and the description, "Encrypted MS Access" in this case, will appear under Type in a directory listing.
With NTFS, you can add an alternate data stream (ADS):
notepad.exe z:\docs\testde.enc:Extra.txt
Reading the stream:
more < testde.enc:extra.txt
More information: http://www.think-techie.com/2010/04/alternate-data-streams.html
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/altds
This is a tough nut to crack! An application must read information about the ACCDB, but that information can't be stored in the ACCDB because you want the read without opening the ACCDB. And you can't use the suggested file system methods because this must work under Wine on Mac (I assume from another of your questions).
The only solution I can see is to create a companion file (with same base name but different extension) to hold the metadata. So if your application wants to know about SomeDb.accdb, it would look for a file named SomeDb.metadata and read that instead.
I suggested a kludge for your earlier question ... unfortunately this is another. :-) However, it's a simple kludge and it should work ... even on Mac.
I'm trying to open a form from an url. This ms access database will be hosted on a shared folder in an network, and the costumer has asked me if it's possible to open an database form (i'll have to pass an ID).
If this were in web environment i would do this without any problem, but honestly in ms access i have no idea how to do this.
Can someone help me?
Have a look at Register protocol and Registering an Application to a URL Protocol. They have a example registry file on how to register a protocol:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\foo]
#="URL:foo Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\foo\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\foo\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\foo\shell\open\command]
#="\"C:\\Program Files\\Application\\program.exe\" \"%1\""
You can change the last line to something like:
#="\"C:\\Program Files\\Office\\access.exe\" \"C:\\path\\to\\your\\db.mdb\" /cmd \"%1\""
If you URL is foo:241245, the following command is called:
"C:\Program Files\Office\access.exe" "C:\path\to\your\db.mdb" /cmd "241245"
In Access, the commandline arguments are returned by the Command function:
In the direct window:
?Command
241245
The database can be opened from a URL like any other file:
file://server/share/path/database.mdb
This won't work if the database has user-level security on it though. I've only ever done that by using a windows shortcut.
If you're not using user-level security and the URL works, you can set the desired form to open automatically on load by going to the Access Options screen and the Current Database tab, then selecting the desired form from the Display Form drop-down list.
Oops - I just noticed that you said you'd need to pass an ID. I don't know if that's possible using a URL.
Open your Access database from the network location (i.e., with a UNC path, not from a drive letter, or locally).
Navigate so you can see the form listed in your database.
Drag the form to your desktop. A shortcut directly to the form will be created there.
I don't think this is a good idea, though. It's a substitute for a user interface in your Access application. Additionally, your description of the problem sounds like you're intending to have multiple people opening the same database file. This is a really bad practice -- best practice is for the database to be split (back end with data tables only on the server, and individual copy of the front end with forms/reports/etc. on each user's workstation), and more than one user should never be opening the same front end at the same time.