AWS SDK for PHP Example?

Question

I am trying to install the AWS SDK for PHP on my (of all things) AWS EC2 server. I think I have it installed, but can't seem to figure out how to use it. All of the code examples I can find are for S3. I'm looking for a PHP Code Example for using the AWS SDK for PHP v2.x to do anything with Amazon EC2.

Even if it just lists my currently running instances. Nothing fancy, I just need to see it work.

I've installed the SDK using Pear.

Answer 1

Victor Smirnow has already taken the time to provide a question and elaborate answer on How to get list of EC2 instances with Amazon PHP SDK 2 (+1 each) - accordingly you should simply check his answer for more details, but the short version for using the DescribeInstances API action via the AWS SDK for PHP 2 describeInstances method as requested boils down to:

$config = array();
$config['key'] = 'key';
$config['secret'] = 'secret';
$config['region'] = 'us-east-1';
$ec2Client = \Aws\Ec2\Ec2Client::factory($config);

$result = $ec2Client->DescribeInstances();