YAML – My Favorite Non-Markup Language

I have been using YAML for awhile and decided I’d like to write a post about it. YAML is an acronym for YAML Ain’t Markup Language and it is a very useful and concise serialization standard. I use YAML all the time in when I am coding PHP projects that require some kind of configuration files. Here is what wiki says about it: YAML syntax was designed to be easily mapped to data types common to most high-level languages: list, hash, and scalar. Its familiar indented outline and lean appearance makes it especially suited for tasks where humans are likely to view or edit data structures,...