John Hobbs

So, today Amazon debuted Simple Email Service. The gist of it is, send mail with them instead of your own servers. Like a feature reduced SendGrid or Postmark.

Not a lot of stuff out there for it so I thought I’d jump the gun a bit and write a transport for PHP’s Swiftmailer. If you have to send e-mail from your sever and from PHP, Swiftmailer is your best friend.

Never dug into Swiftmailer’s guts before, but it’s pretty well laid out. All you have to do for a new transport is implement the send method of the Transport interface and you are done.

I knocked mine together pretty quick, and the only code I cribbed was the HMAC code from php-aws, because AWS was rejecting the output from hash_hmac. (Which I literally just figured out while I wrote that paragraph. Works now.)

So how hard is it to use? Easy as any other transport in Swiftmailer.

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<?php
  require_once 'lib/swift_required.php';
 
  //Create the Transport
  $transport = new Swift_AWSTransport(
    'AWS_ACCESS_KEY',
    'AWS_SECRET_KEY'
  );
 
  //Create the Mailer using your created Transport
  $mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
 
  //Create the message
  $message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
  ->setSubject("What up?")
  ->setFrom(array('you@yourdomain.com'))
  ->setTo(array('them@theirdomain.com'))
  ->setBody("
<p>
  Dude, I'm <b>totally</b> sending you email via AWS.
</p>
  ", 'text/html');
 
  $mailer->send( $message );

So, yeah, it works.

I know there is a ton of stuff I didn’t implement that I need to before this could be “production” ready, but it was a very satisfying little project.

You can grab it here: https://github.com/jmhobbs/Swiftmailer-Transport–AWS-SES

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