How do I read from a yml file in a controller in symfony2?

Question

I have a random name.yml file inside lets say my src/AppBundle/Controller folder. The content inside the YML file is simple:

name: utkarsh

I need to access this from my controller, and have tried to fetch them with

$name = $this->getName('name');

from within my controller file. When I try this, I get this error message:

Attempted to call an undefined method named "getName" of class "AppBundle\Controller\DefaultController".

What is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

If it's just going to be a general file, and wouldn't better be part of the framework's configuration (for example, in the parameters.yml file), you can parse/read the file using the Yaml component, which is already used by the Symfony framework.

use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;

$values = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents('/path/to/name.yml'));
echo $values['name'];

If the file you are loading is in the same directory as the code that is running it, you can use the PHP Automagic constants - __DIR__, file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/name.yml'), or use it as a relative base to work from.