sending emails aws-php-sdk v3 - php

Question

I'm trying to integrate and send emails with AWS SES service but for any reason I'm receiving an internal server error.
Here bellow I paste the code I'm using:
User controller
<?php
class User extends Controller
{
public function subscribe()
{
$ses = $this->model('modelSES');
}
}
?>
Extending class
<?php
class Controller
{
public function model($model, $connection = '')
{
require_once '../project/models/' . $model . '.php';
$db_err = 'http://' . HOST . '/error/database';
return new $model($connection, $db_err);
}
}
?>
Model modelSES
<?php
use Aws\Ses\SesClient;
class modelSES
{
protected $ses;
public function __construct()
{
require '../project/libs/vendor/autoload.php';
$this->ses = new SesClient([
'key' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
'secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
'region' => 'us-west-2',
'version' => '2010-12-01'
]);
}
}
?>
I also configured SES for the verified sender email:
I verified my email Address (it appears verified in the ses console).
I enabled DKIM.
I also have 3 CNAME recordsets registered on my Route 53.
I got an identity policy registered with the sender user associated
to the rights of ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail.
To install the AWS SDK, I followed the AWS-PHP-SDK Guide.
The PHP version i'm using is 5.5.6.
Sounds like the problem rounds when I create the object $this->ses = new SesClient but I don't find the way to connect it properly.
P.S Is HTTPS required?

Answer 1

What I'm doing to send mails through SES in php is simply use the SMTP Interface from AWS SES.
You'll need to obtain SMTP credentials as described here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/smtp-credentials.html
And then you can just send via SMTP.