Month: November 2008

Two and a half years ago I began working with Amazon Web Services — first with S3 and then SQS and EC2. The code was eventually cleaned up and released as an open source project called PHP-AWS. Since then, it has remained relatively unchanged. Just bug fixes and the occasional support for new AWS features when users contribute patches. It’s not particularly pretty, but it has stood up well against time. The S3 class was recommended by Raymond Yee in his book Pro Web 2.0 Mashups, and a number of people have emailed examples of production sites where the library …

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This afternoon I needed an easy way to upload files to Amazon S3 and set specific headers on them. I’ve built one-off scripts like this in the past, but this time I wanted to generalize the problem into a reusable shell command. I pulled in some code from PHP-AWS and got it working fairly quickly. However, I got swamped with an ugly nest of if and switch statements when I began adding support for multiple arguments and switches. A quick Google search didn’t find any ready-made PHP solutions, so I rolled my own. It’s a small class — about 60 …

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