Managing visibility timeout in Amazon SQS with AWS SDK for PHP Version 3

A visibility timeout is a period of time during which Amazon SQS prevents other consuming components from receiving and processing a message. To learn more, see Visibility Timeout.

The following example shows how to:

All the example code for the AWS SDK for PHP is available here on GitHub.

Credentials

Before running the example code, configure your AWS credentials, as described in Credentials. Then import the AWS SDK for PHP, as described in Basic usage.

Change the visibility timeout of multiple messages

Imports

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aws\Exception\AwsException;
use Aws\Sqs\SqsClient;

Sample Code

$queueUrl = "QUEUE_URL";

$client = new SqsClient([
    'profile' => 'default',
    'region' => 'us-west-2',
    'version' => '2012-11-05'
]);

try {
    $result = $client->receiveMessage(array(
        'AttributeNames' => ['SentTimestamp'],
        'MaxNumberOfMessages' => 10,
        'MessageAttributeNames' => ['All'],
        'QueueUrl' => $queueUrl, // REQUIRED
    ));
    $messages = $result->get('Messages');
    if ($messages != null) {
        $entries = array();
        for ($i = 0; $i < count($messages); $i++) {
            $entries[] = [
                'Id' => 'unique_is_msg' . $i, // REQUIRED
                'ReceiptHandle' => $messages[$i]['ReceiptHandle'], // REQUIRED
                'VisibilityTimeout' => 3600
            ];
        }
        $result = $client->changeMessageVisibilityBatch([
            'Entries' => $entries,
            'QueueUrl' => $queueUrl
        ]);

        var_dump($result);
    } else {
        echo "No messages in queue \n";
    }
} catch (AwsException $e) {
    // output error message if fails
    error_log($e->getMessage());
}