PHP + YAML (not strictly Bukkit but related)

Okay, I'm pretty new to this so it may not even be possible and I'm only doing this this way because I can't get a mySQL version to work but it's been fun working with YAML so I kept going. I'm trying to add mail (essentials) in using PHP from my website but running into problems with the formatting of the YAML dump.

I'm loading this through PHP:

Code:

mail:
- 'Crimsonfox: test'
- 'Crimsonfox: Test2'
- 'Crimsonfox: t'
socialspy: false
nickname: Crimsonfox
muted: false
inventory:
    size: 0
godmode: false
teleportenabled: true
afk: true
jailed: false
lastlocation:
    yaw: 176.81152
    pitch: 36.900253
    z: 2744.016947782735
    y: 67.0
    world: C3P0
    x: 835.7719458699837

What I'm trying to do is adding a new mail entry in, I do my PHP stuff and it dumps this:

Code:

mail: null
0: 'TestyMcgee: And his message'
1: 'Crimsonfox: test'
2: 'Crimsonfox: Test2'
3: 'Crimsonfox: t'
socialspy: false
nickname: Crimsonfox
muted: false
inventory:
  size: 0
godmode: false
teleportenabled: true
afk: true
jailed: false
lastlocation:
  yaw: 176.81152
  pitch: 36.900253
  z: 2744.0169477827
  y: 67
  world: C3P0
  x: 835.77194586998

No dashes anymore but instead numbers with colons. And some of the spacing lower down has changed. I doubt I'm experienced enough to figure it out, thought I'd did quite well to insert that mail in but then it breaks when it reads the YML file because it's in a slightly different format.

Here's the PHP if it helps:

Code:

<?php

require_once 'lib\sfYaml.php';
echo '<pre>';

$array = sfYaml::load('crimsonfox.yml');
$test = array_key_exists ('mail', $array);
echo $test;
$test2 = array_search ('mail', $array);
echo $test2.'Blergh<br />';
array_keys($array, '0',true);
$CountMail = array();
$i = 0;
$done = false;
$offset = 0;
foreach ($array as $key_name => $key_value) {
    if (is_numeric($key_name)) {
        echo "BLERGH";
        
        if ($done == false) {
            $offset = array_search(strval($key_name), array_keys($array));
            $done = true;
            echo 'The first mail key offset is:<font color="red">' . $offset . '</font>';
        }
        $i++;
    }
    print "  Key = " . $key_name . " Value = " . $key_value . "<BR>";

}
echo $i;
echo '<br />';
print_r($array);
echo '<br /><br />';

echo $array['1'].'<br />    ';
$message = "TestyMcgee: And his message";


array_splice ( $array , $offset, 0, $message);


$yaml = sfYaml::dump($array, 2);
file_put_contents('CrimsonTest.yml', $yaml);

print_r($array);

?>

Any help would be appreciated.

 

No spaces before the dashes so the YAML parser thinks they are "top-level". It should look like this:

Code:

mail:
    - 'Crimsonfox: test'
    - 'Crimsonfox: Test2'
    - 'Crimsonfox: t'
socialspy: false
nickname: Crimsonfox
muted: false
inventory:
    size: 0
godmode: false
teleportenabled: true
afk: true
jailed: false
lastlocation:
    yaw: 176.81152
    pitch: 36.900253
    z: 2744.016947782735
    y: 67.0
    world: C3P0
    x: 835.7719458699837

Also, here's an easier way to inject a message:

PHP:

<?php

require_once 'lib/sfYaml.php';

$player = sfYaml::load('crimsonfox.yml');

// Setup the mail container if not already present
if (!isset($player['mail'])) {
    $player['mail'] = array();
}

$message = 'TestyMcgee: This is a test!';
// "Shift" the message to the top of the mail container
array_unshift($player['mail'], $message);

$yaml = sfYaml::dump($player, 2);

?>


 

Cheers for the PHP awesome but sadly I have no control how essentials create's its player config files which is annoying. >_< So I guess I'll just do a search of the file rather than use the parser.