This property loader is designed for unit testing and uses the singleton design pattern to achieve this. Consider a dependency injection container if you wanted a property loader for the main application.

Conf::init('/path');
$c = Conf::getInstance();
$property = $c['some.property'];

or simply -

Conf::init('/path');
$property = Conf::get('some.property');

Defaults can be used here too -

$property = Conf::get('some.property', 'default value');

The path in the init line should point to where the properties.yml file should be, if the properties.yml file isn't present, it will look for a properties.yml.dist file. You can change the properties filename with the init functions second parameter.

YAML arrays are delimited in the property key using periods.

properties.yml:

some:
    property: hello world

Code:

echo Conf::get('some.property');   // hello world