editing a file

[kenhess]

I want to automatically edit the httpd.conf file to remove a <Directory> entry.
Can someone help me do this?

I can get rid of the stuff that is specific but not the stuff like </Directory> at the end of the stanza...I guess what I need is some way to get rid of the first line which will be:

<Directory "/var/www/$directory">
entry
entry
entry
entry
</Directory>

But am not sure how to do that.

[Shrike]

Somehow I doubt that PHP should have access to that file on a live environment, but anyway you'd need to use regular expression to get at the contents:

$directories = preg_match_all("/(<Directory[^>].*?>.*?<\\/Directory>)/si", $httpd_contents, $matches);

$matches should contain all <Directory> directives. You could then split each on \n to edit each line.