Spyc is a YAML loader/dumper written in pure PHP. Given a YAML document, Spyc will return an array which you can use however you see fit. Given an array, Spyc will return a string which contains a YAML document built from your data.

YAML is an amazingly human friendly and strikingly versatile data serialization language which can be used for log files, config files, custom protocols, the works. For more information, see http://www.yaml.org.

Spyc is currently at version 0.5 (see Changelog). Spyc supports YAML 1.0 specification.

Using Spyc

Using Spyc is trivial:

<?php
require_once "spyc.php";
$Data = Spyc::YAMLLoad('spyc.yaml');

or (if you prefer functional syntax)

<?php
require_once "spyc.php";
$Data = spyc_load_file('spyc.yaml');

See an example of a YAML file in the README, which is valid YAML.

Comparison with other YAML parsing engines for PHP

• For Syck, see ComparisonWithSyck
• For Horde_YAML, see ComparisonWithHordeYAML

Projects that use Spyc

• symfony (1.0 branch)
• livepipe
• guesswork
• andromeda
• akelos
• probus
• phpdays
• drupal patterns
• girc-bot

If you are using or planning to use Spyc in your application, you can e-mail Vlad to receive an honorable mention on the main Spyc page.