"ItemLookup", "ItemId"=>"B000X9FLKM", "ResponseGroup"=>"Small") $public_key - your "Access Key ID" $private_key - your "Secret Access Key" */ // some paramters $method = "GET"; $host = "ecs.amazonaws.".$region; $uri = "/onca/xml"; // additional parameters $params["Service"] = "AWSECommerceService"; $params["AWSAccessKeyId"] = $public_key; // GMT timestamp $params["Timestamp"] = gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z"); // API version $params["Version"] = "2009-03-31"; // sort the parameters ksort($params); // create the canonicalized query $canonicalized_query = array(); foreach ($params as $param=>$value) { $param = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($param)); $value = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($value)); $canonicalized_query[] = $param."=".$value; } $canonicalized_query = implode("&", $canonicalized_query); // create the string to sign $string_to_sign = $method."\n".$host."\n".$uri."\n".$canonicalized_query; // calculate HMAC with SHA256 and base64-encoding $signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac("sha256", $string_to_sign, $private_key, True)); // encode the signature for the request $signature = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($signature)); // create request $request = "http://".$host.$uri."?".$canonicalized_query."&Signature=".$signature; // do request $response = @file_get_contents($request); if ($response === False) { return False; } else { // parse XML $pxml = simplexml_load_string($response); if ($pxml === False) { return False; // no xml } else { return $pxml; } } } ?>