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REST Upload String

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Example to upload the contents of a string to the Amazon S3 service.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\AuthAws;
use Chilkat2\FileAccess;
use Chilkat2\Rest;

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

$rest = new Rest();

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
$bTls = true;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
$rest->Connect('s3.amazonaws.com', $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Important: For buckets created in regions outside us-east-1,
// there are three important changes that need to be made.
// See Working with S3 Buckets in Non-us-east-1 Regions for the details.
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
$authAws = new AuthAws();
$authAws->AccessKey = 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
$authAws->SecretKey = 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
$authAws->ServiceName = 's3';
$rest->SetAuthAws($authAws);

// Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
// In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat100".
$rest->Host = 'chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com';

// Load a text file into memory.
$fac = new FileAccess();
try {
    $fileContents = $fac->ReadEntireTextFile('qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml', 'utf-8');

    // To send the file in gzip or deflate compressed format, set the Content-Encoding request
    // header to "gzip" or "deflate".  (this is optional)
    $rest->AddHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');

    // Indicate the Content-Type of our upload.  (This is optional)
    $rest->AddHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');

    // We can add an "Expect: 100-continue" header so that if the request is rejected
    // by the server immediately after receiving the request header, it can respond
    // and the client (Chilkat) can avoid sending the file data.
    // (this is optional)
    $rest->AddHeader('Expect', '100-continue');

    // Upload the file to Amazon S3.
    $responseBodyStr = $rest->FullRequestString('PUT', '/hamlet_play.xml', $fileContents);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// Did we get a 200 response indicating success?
$statusCode = $rest->ResponseStatusCode;
if ($statusCode != 200) {
    echo 'Error response: ', $responseBodyStr, "\n";
    echo 'Status code: ', $statusCode, ', Status text: ', $rest->ResponseStatusText, "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "File successfully uploaded.\n";