Read and Insert data into DynamoDB in Laravel controllers (and plain PHP)

laravel-php-dynamo-db-example.php

## Reference: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel

## Setup 1. Include AWS SDK into composer
composer require aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel


## Setup 2. Publish AWS Class into Laravel
php artisan vendor:publish  --provider="Aws\Laravel\AwsServiceProvider"


## Setup 3. Include in providers (Laravel)
'providers' => array(
    // ...
    Aws\Laravel\AwsServiceProvider::class,
)

//----  S-3 instructions here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel ----//


//---- Read records from DynamoDB (Laravel example) ----//

use AWS;

$dynamo_db = AWS::createClient('dynamoDB');

$results_scan = $dynamo_db->getIterator('Scan', array(
    'TableName' => 'your-dynamo-table-name',
    'ScanFilter' => array(
        'some_attribute_name' => array(
            'AttributeValueList' => array(
                array('N' => '1')
            ),
            'ComparisonOperator' => 'EQ'
        )
    )
));

foreach ($results_scan as $item) {
    echo $item['attribute-name']['S']." ".$item['attribute-name']['S'] . "\n";
}

//---- Insert record into DynamoDB (plain PHP example) ---//

use Aws\DynamoDb\DynamoDbClient;

$dynamoDbClient = DynamoDbClient::factory(array(
    'profile' => 'dynamo-profile-name',
    'version' => '2012-08-10',
    'region'  => 'us-east-2'
));

// Store the confirmation keyed against the signup_uuid 
$timestamp = strval(round(microtime(true) * 1000));

$results_confirmation = $dynamoDbClient->putItem(array(
    'TableName' => 'your-table-name',
    'Item' => array(
        'timestamp'  => array('N' => $timestamp),
        'some_attribute' => array('N' => $some_value),
        'some_other_attribute'  => array('S' => $some_other_value),
    )
));