Introduction

Replace

DB Replacer - search and replace in your Joomla! database.


DB Replacer enables you to search and replace in any table in your database.

It even supports searching with case sensitivity.

Sometimes you need to replace something in all your articles. That takes hours doing it the conventional way: open article, change, save article, open next article, etc...

With DB Replacer this takes a few seconds.

DB Replacer gives you a preview of what is going to be replaced, so you know what you are doing before actually replacing anything.

WARNING: DB Replacer replaces stuff right in your database in the places you tell it too. This can - if you replace the wrong stuff - break your site. So be careful and only use this if you know what you are doing.


How to use it: https://www.regularlabs.com/dbreplacer

Amazing for sure!!



Saves me a looot of job

Some clicks and done.

And when I need help the support was instantly



Well done

Extremely useful!



Posted on 17 September 2012
Very simple: probably this is not the kind of extension you'll be using everyday, but when you need it is extremely useful to have it installed.



I had several posts where I needed to make a change. Using the built-in search and replace functionality I could change several lines of code in more than 70 articles in less than 5 minutes.



What else can I say. It works beautifully, and it's extremely easy to use.



Wonderful extension!
I messed up and spelt a link incorrectly - except this link was replicated across 50+ k2 items.



Within seconds this baby had solved my problems WITHOUT messing with any sql query language.



Nice work, very very nice work - I can get to bed early tonight now!!
I have used Joomla for years now and have built a huge number of sites with it and I have to say that this extension is, by far, the most useful and most powerful Joomla extension that exists.

Great Work



Posted on 21 January 2012
Great tool! You have to know what you are doing, as you are directly modifying the database. The extension will show you exactly what it is going to do, so if you have your wits together nothing should go wrong.

Extremely powerful as you can make changes to all your articles in a matter of seconds. In my case I replaced a content plugin and had to modify the syntax in all articles. It was a single operation with DB replacer.



Now one other thing I will also mention in other reviews for NoNumber extensions:

As soon as you have more than one NoNumber extension installed I highly recommend his extension manager!

very very cool extension



Posted on 28 December 2011
Thank so much NoNumber!

Your component works really fast and save me so much time if i search in database manually.
Finally, with Joomla 1.7 we do not have to deal with the silly /images/stories/ folder for all of our images. It was so annoying that everything has 'stories' for an image URL.



So, after migrating a site (using sp_upgrade), I then rearrange the images directory to a structure of my liking. Even if it's a simple move up in the folder tree.



db_replacer allows me to quickly change all [src="images/stories/] to [src="images/]



While I am at it, if I decide to rearrange or rename image folders, it is a simple src="/images/old_folder/ replaced by src="images/new_folder_name/



If I needed it more frequently, like for changing affiliate links or branding, I would get the pro version in an instant. For my one-time use, it was still worth a donation.



Thanks for saving me hours of tedious work (or having to do the sql query myself)

Superb Power Tool



Posted on 03 November 2011
Definitely for power-users only, this tool is invaluable if you know SQL and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty in the code "behind the scenes" of Joomla. The ability to directly update/modify multiple records in the database tables is an incredible time saver. It's free, but, like all of Peter's excellent extensions, well worth paying for; it pays for itself fairly quickly in hours of saved labor.

OUTSTANDING!!



Posted on 29 September 2011
It's rare that I come across a component for Joomla that does everything you want from it and does it extremely well. There are good extensions, but most appear to have the odd fall down or annoyance. This extension however has none, it's perfect!!



I had around 30 articles on my site that all had different words in them for plugins and components that I had removed from my site. This presented me with the problem of having to manually edit each page which would have taken hours. Luckily I have other products from this author installed so I had a look to see what this script could do and WOW! it removed all my edits in about 2 seconds.



I cannot praise this component enough, 5 stars well deserved!



Thanks

Invaluable time saver



Posted on 19 September 2011
Like all the other extensions from NoNumber, this is a great time saver.

Apart from the obvious usefulness of the replacement function itself, i really appreciate the extension usability.

It's EASY. You really cannot fail to understand how it works. And it's QUICK.

Great job Peter.
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DB Replacer

Version:
8.1.0
Developer:
Regular Labs
Last updated:
Jun 13 2025
2 months ago
Date added:
Nov 18 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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