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Asked: 2026-05-31T12:42:57+00:00

When using the AWS SDK for PHP with SimpleDB (a mouthful) the select section

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When using the AWS SDK for PHP with SimpleDB (a mouthful) the “select” section of the documentation ( http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/index.html#m=AmazonSDB/select ) has the option:

NextToken – string – Optional – A string informing Amazon SimpleDB where to start the next list of ItemNames

And provides some helpful code to handle this scenario.

But it seems to me that having to wrap all select statements in code that checks for a NextToken and appends the data is something that should be a basic function of the SDK, maybe as an option: do_auto_NextToken => 1

Am I missing some basic reason this isn’t the case?

And can anyone with more familiarity of the SDK tell me where the select handling is being done so I can see if it makes sense to patch the SDK myself to autohandle NextTokens ?

Thanks for your help and opinions!

Tosh

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  1. Editorial Team

    With the low-level structure of the current AWS SDK for PHP, it probably would not make sense to do this since each request returns the whole response as a simplexml object. If the nextTokens were used to make the subsequent requests automatically, it would make it difficult to expose the responses for each of the requests individually in a way that is consistent with how the rest of the SDK works.

    That being said, I think what you are talking about would be a great feature of a higher-level abstraction. In fact, the AWS SDK for Ruby is designed solely as a higher-level client, and does process the nextTokens automatically for you. Seeing higher-level clients added to the PHP SDK would be really useful.

    Instead of patching the SDK to handle nextTokens, I would consume it by a middle-layer library that your application can use. If you have specific questions about how the SDK works, you could always ask on the AWS PHP Development Forum.

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