aws_signed_request.php

<?php

/*
Modified to use CURL : Sameer Borate
Original code Copyright (c) 2009 Ulrich Mierendorff

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*/


/*
  
  More information on the authentication process can be found here:
  http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/BasicAuthProcess.html
  
*/



function  aws_signed_request($region,$params,$public_key,$private_key,$associate_tag)
{

    $method = "GET";
    $host = "ecs.amazonaws.".$region; // must be in small case
    $uri = "/onca/xml";
    
    
    $params["Service"]          = "AWSECommerceService";
    $params["AWSAccessKeyId"]   = $public_key;
    $params["AssociateTag"]     = $associate_tag;
    $params["Timestamp"]        = gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");
    $params["Version"]          = "2009-03-31";

    /* The params need to be sorted by the key, as Amazon does this at
      their end and then generates the hash of the same. If the params
      are not in order then the generated hash will be different thus
      failing the authetication process.
    */
    ksort($params);
    
    $canonicalized_query = array();

    foreach ($params as $param=>$value)
    {
        $param = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($param));
        $value = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($value));
        $canonicalized_query[] = $param."=".$value;
    }
    
    $canonicalized_query = implode("&", $canonicalized_query);

    $string_to_sign = $method."\n".$host."\n".$uri."\n".$canonicalized_query;
    
    /* calculate the signature using HMAC with SHA256 and base64-encoding.
       The 'hash_hmac' function is only available from PHP 5 >= 5.1.2.
    */
    $signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac("sha256", $string_to_sign, $private_key, True));
    
    /* encode the signature for the request */
    $signature = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($signature));
    
    /* create request */
    $request = "http://".$host.$uri."?".$canonicalized_query."&Signature=".$signature;

    /* I prefer using CURL */
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$request);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

    $xml_response = curl_exec($ch);
    
    /* If cURL doesn't work for you, then use the 'file_get_contents'
       function as given below.
    */
    
    if ($xml_response === False)
    {
        return False;
    }
    else
    {
        /* parse XML */
        $parsed_xml = @simplexml_load_string($xml_response);
        return ($parsed_xml === False) ? False : $parsed_xml;
    }
}
?>