Hi PvW,
It’s starting to get a bit frustrating working with DB-Replacer and ChatGPT. I’m getting a lot of "search string not found" errors, even on simple searches, and that can’t be right. The fun part is kind of slipping away, and ChatGPT just spits out a new regex example whenever I say "not captured," which also doesn’t capture anything, and then suddenly we get lucky. I admit I’m not fully familiar with this regex technology, but ChatGPT shouldn’t be making that many mistakes given its learning in that area. Is there something I can do or try to get DB-Replacer to accept things better and maybe more broadly? You mentioned something about:

"Your server seems to be naggy about whitespace. But normally you wouldn’t need all those '\s*' there. Probably a weird PHP or MySQL setting on your server."

Do you think trying to cleaning up whitespace, optimizing my database, etc., via phpMyAdmin would help, or should I contact my provider regarding the weird PHP settings? I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

Kind Regards,
Ulric

Thanks...
I think it will be difficult to change PHP settings with these standard providers; maybe a `php.ini` in the root at specific points, but I don’t think they allow that for everyone. However, I’m free to configure my `php.ini` locally on MAMP, so I can make these large regex changes locally. Can you recommend some specific PHP settings that work well or not with DB-Replacer?

It would be cool to get DB-Replacer running optimally locally.

Well, I work completely normally with MAMP locally for this kind of thing, never on a live site. I’m still getting all these incredibly many errors "search string not found." I’m running an older version of PHP 8.1.29 / MySQL 8.0.35 could that be a factor? or whitespace in the DB

OK I underdstand ...tanks anyway
Best regards