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S3 Rename File

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Demonstrates how to rename a file on Amazon S3.

Renaming an object (file) in AWS S3 using the AWS S3 API involves copying the object to a new location with the desired name and then deleting the original object.

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<?php

$success = 0;

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

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

// Provide AWS credentials.
$authAws = new COM("Chilkat.AuthAws");
$authAws->AccessKey = 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
$authAws->SecretKey = 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
$authAws->ServiceName = 's3';

// This particular bucket is in the Oregon region, as opposed to the US Standard,
// therefore the Region must be set appropriately.
// Also note that we connected to "s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com".
$authAws->Region = 'us-west-2';

$rest->SetAuthAws($authAws);

// Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
// In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat.qa".
// Note that the Host header should use "bucketName.s3.amazonaws.com", not "bucketName.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
$rest->Host = 'chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com';

// Copy /images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg to /images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg
// Notice here that the x-amz-copy-source includes the bucket in the source path,
// but the target path passed to FullRequestNoBody does NOT contain the bucket (because the bucket
// was already specified in the Host header).
$rest->AddHeader('x-amz-copy-source','/chilkat.qa/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg');

$sbResponse = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('PUT','/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg',$sbResponse);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 or 204 response code,
// with an XML body.  
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'response status text = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusText . "\n";
    print 'response header: ' . $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'response body: ' . $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\n";
    print '---' . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestStartLine: ' . $rest->LastRequestStartLine . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestHeader: ' . $rest->LastRequestHeader . "\n";
}

print $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\n";
print 'Copy Successful.' . "\n";

// --------------------------------------
// Now we can delete the original file..
// --------------------------------------

// We no longer want to send the x-amz-copy-source header.  Remove it.
$rest->RemoveHeader('x-amz-copy-source');

$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('DELETE','/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg',$sbResponse);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
$statusCode = $rest->ResponseStatusCode;
print 'Response status code = ' . $statusCode . "\n";
print 'Response text = ' . "\n";
print $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\n";

?>