<?php
use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser;
$file = __DIR__ . '/foo.yml';
$str = file_get_contents($file);
echo '<pre>' . $str . '</pre>' . PHP_EOL;
$yml = new Parser();
dump($yml->parse($str));
foo: bar: ["value1","value2","value3"] baz: "foobarbaz"
^ array:1 [ "foo" => array:2 [ "bar" => array:3 [ 0 => "value1" 1 => "value2" 2 => "value3" ] "baz" => "foobarbaz" ] ]