PHP: How to sync data between s3 buckets using php code without using the CLI .?

Question

I can't seem to find sync and copy options in the php sdk for amazon-s3. Currently I am using aws s3 cp/sync CLI command from within PHP code to achieve this which doesn't seem very neat to me. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can do this with a combination of two features in the PHP SDK.

First, checkout the S3Client::uploadDirectory() method (see user guide). You can upload a while directory's contents like this:

$s3Client->uploadDirectory('/local/directory', 'your-bucket-name');

If you combine this with the S3 Stream Wrapper, then instead of using a local directory as the source, you can specify a bucket.

$s3Client->registerStreamWrapper();
$s3Client->uploadDirectory('s3://your-other-bucket-name', 'your-bucket-name');

This is pretty powerful, because you can even do something across regions if you use a differently configured S3Client object for the Stream Wrapper than the one doing the uploadDirectory().