Can I make a dynamic .htaccess file?

Question

Can I make my .htaccess be generated with php?
I would like to use php to dynamicly create my htaccess file from information from the database.
It would save me the

Answer 1

Can you? Sure. You can create files in the filesystem with PHP so long as you have permissions.

Should you? Well, if you are only using PHP in "command-line" mode, I suppose it's as good as another scripting language. If you are doing so from a website, I would say this is a bad idea for security reasons. Another technology might be more appropriate (if you originally had XML, then XSLT would come to mind, but you're using mysql, so you'll need some other kind of script).