Grabbing contents of Object from S3 via PHP SDK 2?

Question

I have been trying to figure out how to grab contents from an S3 bucket to include in a ZipArchive for a client who is storing files on S3, they now need to create reports that hold the files that were pushed up to S3 by their customers. I have tried the following with the PHP SDK 2 API (Installed with PEAR): ``` require 'AWSSDKforPHP/aws.phar'; use Aws\S3\S3Client; use Aws\Common\Enum\Region; $config = array( 'key' => 'the-aws-key', 'secret' => 'the-aws-secret', 'region' => Region::US_EAST_1 ); $aws_s3 = S3Client::factory($config); $app_config['s3']['bucket'] = 'the-aws-bucket'; $app_config['s3']['prefix'] = ''; $attach_name = 'hosted-test-file.jpg'; try { $result = $aws_s3->getObject( array( 'Bucket' => $app_config['s3']['bucket'], 'Key' => $app_config['s3']['prefix'].$attach_name ) ); var_dump($result); $body = $result->get('Body'); var_dump($body); $handle = fopen('php://temp', 'r'); $content = stream_get_contents($handle); echo "String length: ".strlen($content); } catch(Aws\S3\E…

Accepted Answer

The body of the response is stored in a `Guzzle\Http\EntityBody` object. This is used to protect your application from downloading extremely large files and running out of memory.

If you need to use the contents of the the EntityBody object as a string, you can cast the object to a string:

```
$result = $s3Client->getObject(array(
    'Bucket' => $bucket,
    'Key'    => $key
));

// Cast as a string
$bodyAsString = (string) $result['Body'];

// or call __toString directly
$bodyAsString = $result['Body']->__toString();
```

You can also download directly to the target file if needed:

```
use Guzzle\Http\EntityBody;

$s3Client->getObject(array(
  'Bucket' => $bucket,
  'Key'    => $key,
  'command.response_body' => EntityBody::factory(fopen("/tmp/{$key}", 'w+'))
));
```

Grabbing contents of Object from S3 via PHP SDK 2?

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