Removing links in images

Andy Wilson

Hi Peter,

Having moved and renamed lots of Joomla articles and categories, many of the links in the images are broken so I need to remove them all with DB Replace Pro 7.1.1 in Joomla 3.10.5

A sample link is:
<a href="/bible-teaching-videos/2013/3024-the-christmas-story-3-jesus-birth-luke-2-1-20">
Please would you give me the regular expression?

In the "Where" field is it possible to select just one cat id and recursively select all the cat ids under it without having to list them all? If so, what should I enter, please?

Thanks very much,

Andy

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

No, you can't do that with the WHERE. That would require complex queries with joins and/or subqueries, which DB Replacer does not support. So you will have to list all the category ids you want to search in.

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Andy Wilson

2 years 2 months ago

Andy Wilson

2 years 2 months ago

Thanks for putting me straight on the WHERE question.

Please would you give me the regular expression for removing the links?

Andy

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

What is the before and after html for the links you want?
I guess you don't want the replacement to be done on all possible links. So please tell me what parts of the url/html are common and which parts are dynamic.

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Andy Wilson

2 years 2 months ago

Andy Wilson

2 years 2 months ago

Dear Peter,

I would like to remove the COMPLETE link on ALL of the thumbnail images in a category, for instance, visitors to this blog page

https://greenfordbaptist.london/worship-meetings/worship-meetings-2022

would then have to rely on clicking either the Read More button or the header title to see the full article. In the example of the following paragraph, the common starting code would be

<p>

and the ending common code would be

<img src="

so the complete link between these points, i.e.

<a href="/bible-teaching-videos/2022/3970-greenford-baptist-church-sunday-worship-meeting-in-person-live-streamed-2-january-2022">

would be deleted.

AN HTML EXAMPLE OF THE THUMBNAIL IMAGE WITH ITS LINK

<p><a href="/bible-teaching-videos/2022/3970-greenford-baptist-church-sunday-worship-meeting-in-person-live-streamed-2-january-2022"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qfmmCR9rvzw/mqdefault.jpg" alt="Greenford Baptist Church Sunday worship meeting (in-person, live-streamed) 2 January 2022" width="295" height="166" title="Greenford Baptist Church Sunday worship meeting (in-person, live-streamed) 2 January 2022" /></a></p>

Thanks,

Andy

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 2 months ago

So if I understand correctly, you want to replace all images surrounded with <a> tags, with just the image.
So: