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PHP ActiveX

S3 Download String Object

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Demonstrates how to download a text file (i.e. object) from the Amazon S3 service directly into an in-memory string variable.

Chilkat PHP ActiveX Downloads

PHP ActiveX
<?php

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// Insert your access key here:
$http->AwsAccessKey = 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';

// Insert your secret key here:
$http->AwsSecretKey = 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';

// This bucket is in the us-east-1 region.
$http->AwsRegion = 'us-east-1';

$bucketName = 'chilkat-test-bucket';

$objectName = 'fruit.xml';

$charset = 'utf-8';

$fileContents = $http->s3_DownloadString($bucketName,$objectName,$charset);

if ($http->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    // Failed
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
}
else {
    // Success
    print $fileContents . "\n";
}


?>