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Michael Eilers Smith
Michael Eilers Smith

Reputation: 8608

Sending image posted on PHP server to Amazon S3

I'm using the following PHP code to get images uploaded from mobile devices:

<?php
   $base=$_REQUEST['image'];
   $binary=base64_decode($base);
   header('Content-Type: bitmap; charset=utf-8');
   $file = fopen('uploaded_image.jpg', 'wb');
   fwrite($file, $binary);
   fclose($file);?>

I want to send these images directly to Amazon's S3 service. Do I have to write the JPEG on disk each time? Can't I just send the binary to Amazon S3 and let it generate the JPEG? I'm worried the local write will hammer my server.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 328

Answers (1)

Mike Brant
Mike Brant

Reputation: 71384

You might want to consider using s3fs to mount your S3 bucket as a local drive on your server. You could then write files directly to that mount location. You can also specify a local directory to be used as a cache for the s3fs mount to speed things up if you want your application to be able to read these files.

Here is the link to s3fs Google Code page: http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/

Upvotes: 1

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