Amazon PHP Rest API with CURL - php

Question

I am trying to write a script to automatically update the nameservers that I registered in Route 53.
This can be done via Amazon Rest API:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/api-update-domain-name-servers.html
Up to this point, I have been using the Amazon PHP SDK...but this SDK doesn't even have support for this command (or a majority of Route 53 commands).
I've spent hours trying to form a request using php+curl. I have everything I need - an acesskeyID, secret key, etc. No matter what I do I can NOT seem to get the signature to be valid. The docs are a nightmare...everything related to PHP immediately points you to the SDK, which is no help here.
Please show me how to make a REST request with PHP, sign it using my key, and get a response.
Edit: Here is what I tried to follow to sign the request.

Answer 1

Which version of the SDK are you using?
According to api v3 docs you can use this:
$result = $client->updateDomainNameservers([/* ... */]);
$promise = $client->updateDomainNameserversAsync([/* ... */]);
And these are the relevant parameters:
$result = $client->updateDomainNameservers([
'DomainName' => '<string>', // REQUIRED
'FIAuthKey' => '<string>',
'Nameservers' => [ // REQUIRED
[
'GlueIps' => ['<string>', ...],
'Name' => '<string>', // REQUIRED
],
// ...
],
]);
If you are not using the latest version of the sdk you can install it using composer:
php composer.phar require aws/aws-sdk-php
or use any of the installation methods here.
I really think its best for you to stick with the SDK, unless really not possible (which I don't think is the case here, correct me if I'm wrong).
If installed using composer you can update your composer.json file to contain:
{
"require": {
"aws/aws-sdk-php": "3.*"
}
}
and run composer update
If you just want to check which version of the sdk you are working with you can run composer info (inside that directory):
> composer info
aws/aws-sdk-php 3.18.32 AWS SDK for PHP - Use Amazon Web Services in your PHP project
guzzlehttp/guzzle 6.2.1 Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library
guzzlehttp/promises 1.2.0 Guzzle promises library
guzzlehttp/psr7 1.3.1 PSR-7 message implementation
mtdowling/jmespath.php 2.3.0 Declaratively specify how to extract elements from a JSON document
psr/http-message 1.0 Common interface for HTTP messages
Or check the content of the composer.lock file. You should have there the version of the sdk you are using:
"packages": [
{
"name": "aws/aws-sdk-php",
"version": "3.18.32",
"source": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php.git",
"reference": "84b9927ee116b30babf90a9fc723764672543e29"
},
Make sure you use the last one.

Answer 2

Thanks to #Dekel, I was able to solve this problem. Here is my final code.
require_once '/vendor/autoload.php';
$access_key="XXXXX";
$secret_key="XXXXXXXXXXXX";
$client = Aws\Route53Domains\Route53DomainsClient::factory(array(
'region'=> "us-east-1",
'version'=>'2014-05-15',
'credentials' => array(
'key' => $access_key,
'secret' => $secret_key,
)));
$result = $client->updateDomainNameservers([
'DomainName' => 'example.com',
"Nameservers"=>array(
array("Name"=>"ns.1.com"),
array("Name"=>"ns.2.com")
)
]);