Added note on YAML mappings as objects

dantleech · dantleech · commit 34f243ec01c7 · 2016-05-21T17:18:28.000+01:00
diff --git a/components/yaml/introduction.rst b/components/yaml/introduction.rst
@@ -148,6 +148,17 @@ error if something goes wrong by adding the filename to the message.
 
 .. _components-yaml-dump:
 
+Objects for Mappings
+....................
+
+Yaml :ref:`mappings <yaml-format-collections>` are basically associative
+arrays. You can instruct the parser to return mappings as objects (i.e.
+``\stdClass`` instances)::
+
+    $object = Yaml::parse('{"hello": "world"}', false, false, true);
+    echo get_class($object); // stdClass
+    echo $object->hello; // world
+
 Writing YAML Files
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/components/yaml/yaml_format.rst b/components/yaml/yaml_format.rst
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ YAML uses the ISO-8601 standard to express dates:
     # simple date
     2002-12-14
 
+.. _yaml-format-collections:
+
 Collections
 -----------
 
