This Amazon EC2 client in PHP is a simple, light-weight client app for managing Amazon EC2 images, instances, and key-pairs.

What's New?

• The following updates were made on 2006-12-15
  
• PHP client now uses the 2006-10-01 version of the WSDL
• PHP client sets the User-Agent HTTP header to ec2-php-2.0/1.2-7816
  

Prerequisites

• You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account.
• You must be signed up to use Amazon EC2.
• Requires PHP5.1+ or higher (PHP 5.2 is recommended).
• Requires the following modules:
  • DOM module
  • OpenSSL module

Running The Sample

1. Download an expand the attached .zip file.
2. Edit the ws-amazon-ec2.php file to specify the location of your X.509 certificate and private key (PEM format):
   define('PRIVATE_KEY', 'REPLACE WITH PATHNAME OF YOUR PRIVATE KEY (pk-XXXXX.pem)');
   define('CERT_FILE', 'REPLACE WITH PATHNAME OF YOUR CERTIFICATE (cert-XXXXX.pem)');
3. View the phpclient.php file in your browser: http://localhost/phpclient.php
   User name: demo
   Password: myec2man
4. You can now manage your Amazon EC2 instances.