Edit .htaccess with Wordpress Plugin API? [closed]

Question

I want to write a wordpress plugin that requires changing the .htaccess file. How do I do that in PHP. I have seen this done before with other plugins but, I can not figure out how it is done. Thanks!

Answer 1

The function in wordpress to update the .htaccess file is insert_with_markers it takes three parameters.

insert_with_markers ( string $filename, string $marker, array|string $insertion )

in following this tutorial you could write something like this

// Get path to main .htaccess for WordPress
$htaccess = get_home_path().".htaccess";

$lines = array();
$lines[] = "RewriteBase /foobar";

insert_with_markers($htaccess, "MyPlugin", $lines);

That would look like this in the your .htaccess file

# BEGIN MyPlugin
RewriteBase /foobar
# END MyPlugin

Here is a link to wordpress' documentation of that function

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/insert_with_markers/