Q:

Symfony's sfYaml::load returning a stange value

In a Symfony project, I have the following php code inside a YML file.   I was hoping this code would read another yml file and modify the content based upon its value.   However, sfYaml::load is returning a string instead of an array.   Any ideas why this might be? 
In the following code, I expected $s to contain an array, but instead it contains a string with the value "../config/server_settings.yml". 
From databases.yml:
dsn:      mysql:host=myhost;dbname=mydbname<?php $s = sfYaml::load('../config/server_settings.yml');var_dump($s); ? >

A:

It looks like it's treating your input as a string of yml content, possibly because it can't find the file.  Try using the full path or some quick debugging with is_file('../config/server_settings.yml')

