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Amazon S3 is an excellent storage service that helps by providing media file storage a capacity with highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. This is simply a very good solution for your web application when it deals with large number of image/music/video files.

We have recently integrated S3 bucket with a PHP application based on cakePHP framework.  We found it very simple. The following steps help the integration(development mode).

# Create access key and secret access key by registering https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials

# Download SDK for PHP integration from https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials

# Edit the config file with your developer  access key and secret access key

# Create amazon s3 object by using the command $s3 = new AmazonS3();

# Create bucket

$create_bucket_response = $s3->create_bucket($bucket, AmazonS3::REGION_US_W1);

// Provided that the bucket was created successfully…

if ($create_bucket_response->isOK())

{

/* Since AWS follows an “eventual consistency” model, sleep and poll

until the bucket is available. */

$exists = $s3->if_bucket_exists($bucket);

while (!$exists)

{

// Not yet? Sleep for 1 second, then check again

sleep(1);

$exists = $s3->if_bucket_exists($bucket);

}

/*

Get a list of files to upload. We’ll use some helper functions we’ve

defined below. This assumes that you have a directory called “test_files”

that actually contains some files you want to upload.

*/

$list_of_files = filter_file_list(glob(‘./test_files/*’));

// Prepare to hold the individual filenames

$individual_filenames = array();

$create_bucket_response = $s3->create_bucket($bucket, AmazonS3::REGION_US_W1); // Provided that the bucket was created successfully… if ($create_bucket_response->isOK()) { /* Since AWS follows an “eventual consistency” model, sleep and poll   until the bucket is available. */ $exists = $s3->if_bucket_exists($bucket); while (!$exists) { // Not yet? Sleep for 1 second, then check again sleep(1); $exists = $s3->if_bucket_exists($bucket); } /* Get a list of files to upload. We’ll use some helper functions we’ve defined below. This assumes that you have a directory called “test_files” that actually contains some files you want to upload. */ $list_of_files = filter_file_list(glob(‘./test_files/*’)); // Prepare to hold the individual filenames $individual_filenames = array();

Make sure you give a unique name to the bucket while creating it.

# The following method helps you to see if the bucket is created successfully $create_bucket_response->isOK()

# Upload your files to the bucket using

$individual_filenames = array();

// Loop over the list, referring to a single file at a time

foreach ($list_of_files as $file)

{

// Grab only the filename part of the path

$filename = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file);

$filename = array_pop($filename);

// Store the filename for later use

$individual_filenames[] = $filename;

/* Prepare to upload the file to our new S3 bucket. Add this

 request to a queue that we won’t execute quite yet. */

$s3->batch()->create_object($bucket, $filename, array(

‘fileUpload’ => $file

));

}

/* Execute our queue of batched requests. This may take a few seconds to a

 few minutes depending on the size of the files and how fast your upload

 speeds are. */

$file_upload_response = $s3->batch()->send();

/* Since a batch of requests will return multiple responses, let’s

 make sure they ALL came back successfully using `areOK()` (singular

 responses use `isOK()`). */

if ($file_upload_response->areOK())

{

// Loop through the individual filenames

foreach ($individual_filenames as $filename)

{

/* Display a URL for each of the files we uploaded. Since uploads default to

 private (you can choose to override this setting when uploading), we’ll

 pre-authenticate the file URL for the next 5 minutes. */

echo $s3->get_object_url($bucket, $filename, ’5 minutes’) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;

}

}