PhpRiot: Managing files on Amazon S3 with Zend_Service_Amazon_S3

Quentin Zervaas has written a new article on PhpRiot about using the Zend_Service_Amazon_S3 component of the Zend Framework.

The article discusses how to manage buckets and objects within buckets, as well as how to use Amazon S3 as a Content Delivery Network for your own web sites.

In this article I will introduce you to the Zend_Service_Amazon_S3 component of the Zend Framework. This component makes use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to manage files on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3).

Firstly, I will tell you how to sign up with AWS, then I will introduce you to buckets and show you how to manage them. Next, I will show you how send files to your Amazon S3 bucket so you can use it as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for your web site.

Read the entire article on PhpRiot.