Question

I am using the Zend Framework, and I use the .htaccess for some settings. I am now writing command line scripts for scheduling (e.g. cron). Command line scripts don’t look at the .htaccess file because they’re not served up by Apache. I would like to parse the .htaccess with my script to retrieve some settings. Here are the lines I’m specifically interested in:

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

php_value date.timezone America/New_York

I noticed the PEAR File_HtAccess package, but it seems to only address authentication portions of the .htaccess file.

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SOLUTION: (with credit due to Bamieater)

echo statements for debug output, removed from working code.

$htaccess = file(realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/.htaccess');
echo '<pre>';
foreach ($htaccess as $line) {
    if (preg_match('/^\s*SetEnv\s+APPLICATION_ENV\s+(.*?)\s*$/', trim($line), $matches)) {
        defined('APPLICATION_ENV') || define('APPLICATION_ENV', $matches[1]);
        echo APPLICATION_ENV . PHP_EOL;
    } elseif (preg_match('/^\s*php_(?:admin_)?value\s+date\.timezone\s+(.*?)\s*$/', $line, $matches)) {
        date_default_timezone_set($matches[1]);
        echo date_default_timezone_get() . PHP_EOL;
    }
}
echo '</pre>';

Answer 1

Read the .htaccess file per line and use a regular expression to access the data.

For example something like this:

$line = "php_value date.timezone America/New_York";
$pattern = "@^php_value date.timezone (.*)$@";

if(preg_match($pattern,$line,$matches))
{
    print_r($matches);
}