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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

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

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

$rest = new CkRest();

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

// Provide AWS credentials.
$authAws = new CkAuthAws();
$authAws->put_AccessKey('AWS_ACCESS_KEY');
$authAws->put_SecretKey('AWS_SECRET_KEY');
$authAws->put_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->put_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->put_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 CkStringBuilder();
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('PUT','/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg',$sbResponse);
if ($success == false) {
    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->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->get_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 == false) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

?>