Thursday, 8 March 2007

Know About PHP Syck, Part 2

Alexey Zakhlestin in a post over his blog informs you about updating PHP’s YAML parsing extension called Syck. For the unacquainted, Syck is an extension for reading and writing YAML in scripting languages. As Syck loads the YAML, it stores the data directly in your language's symbol table, he explains.

He updates you about the memory leaks he has fixed and about a new release, which is going to come shortly with his patches included. So, till then he encourages you to build your PHP-extension using sources from subversion.

He gives the following instructions to install Syck:

• Install Syck-library using your favorite package-manager (stable 0.55 version will do)
• SVN export http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/syck/trunk/ext/php/ Syck-php
• CD Syck-php
• Phpize
• ./configure
• Make
• Sudo make install
• Add to your php.ini file
• Restart Apache or FastCGI processes