Title: Search through php files
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search through php files

 *  [Ceffa93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceffa93/)
 * (@ceffa93)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/)
 * Hi every one,
 * i need to set my header clickable, but in my header.php file, i don’t know why
   i don’t have any line like:
 * <div id:”header” ecc ecc
 * using firebug i noticed that an header object does exist, so i want to search
   for it through all the php files. BUT i don’t know i to lauch a search like that,
   the editor doesn’t allow to do it…

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/#post-3909414)
 * You should not modify theme files anyway – changes should only be made in a [Child Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
   What theme are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [Ceffa93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceffa93/)
 * (@ceffa93)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/#post-3909420)
 * suffusion, and i know that, but if i have to remove an object, i cannot do it
   on child theme…i think^^
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/#post-3909421)
 * No, that’s not correct, you would put a copy of the header.php file in the child
   theme and modify that file there – that’s the file that would show up on the 
   child theme site.
 * For help with Suffusion, you should ask on their forums here:
 * [http://aquoid.com/forum/](http://aquoid.com/forum/)
 *  Thread Starter [Ceffa93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceffa93/)
 * (@ceffa93)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/#post-3909422)
 * ah ok thanks…but about my first question? the main thing i need is an instrument
   that allow to search in all the source code…it would be very usefull
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-through-php-files/#post-3909423)
 * php files don’t have the same generated HTML code that you see using Firebug –
   so that may be the difficulty here.
 * To search all the files, you’d need to download the theme folder to your local
   computer and do the search there.

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