Amazon SNS Subscription verification with PHP
Written by Saran on
July 18, 2012,
Updated
July 25, 2014I've been trying to set up Amazon SES for my small group of subscribers, as I was done using Feedburner. Because we all know there not much option to manipulate email template, and worst, there is no API available to play with! So I decided to switch to low cost Amazon SES, which is exactly I need.
I managed to create my own mailing system that sends emails using SES. But I was stuck with Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) verification process, because I was expecting normal POST variables from Amazon SNS, but it turns out Amazon puts subscribe confirmation link in PHP
php://input along with other variables.So, in order to confirm subscription, we need to read
php://input using listener script, and then it's up to you to decide what you want to do with the information. In my case I just emailed the content back to my email address, where I receive a subscribe URL included in this message, which takes me to a XML confirmation link to verify my subscription. Here's my code :
PHP
$msg_body ='';
$msgs = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
foreach($msgs as $msg)
{
$msg_body .= $msg." ----------\r\n\r\n";
}
mail('your_email@your_site.com','Test token', $msg_body);
Below is the email received from my SNS listener script.
