find replace text in file with Phing

Question

Does anyone know how to find and replace text inside a file with Phing?

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing, and I found out that exists a filter named ExpandProperties which allows to replace properties in the copied file. For example I used it in a apache virtual host template:

And in the template file

   DocumentRoot "${application.startdir}/public"
   ServerName ${apache.default.host}

   
       Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   

In this way you don't need to explicitly list all the tokens you want replaced, pretty useful...