What is PHP-AWS?
PHP-AWS is a collection of PHP classes for accessing Amazon’s AWS platform. It supports Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). There’s also an experimental class for using Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and planned support for the new SimpleDB service.
Project History
I began writing PHP-AWS in June of 2006 when I couldn’t find a good PHP example for accessing S3. Support for EC2 and SQS came when Sitening began development on Basejumpr in the Fall of that year. Basejumpr was the first “real” test of the code base - coordinating multiple EC2 instances with SQS and managing gigabytes of data in S3 - it held up nicely. In fact, it’s still being used actively in Sitening’s new Raven SEO Tools.
Open Source
PHP-AWS was released under the MIT Open Source License in January 2007 and is hosted publicly on Google Code. You’re encouraged to download the code, use it in your own projects, and submit bug reports and feature requests. Code contributions are always welcome, too.
