gistfile1.txt

public function sendEmail($email, $subject, $html, $text)
    {
        $sesClient = SesClient::factory(array(
            'credentials' => array(
                'key' => 'YOURKEY',
                'secret' => 'YOURSECRET',
            ),
            'region' => 'us-east-1',
            'version' => '2010-12-01'
        ));

        $from_name = base64_encode($this->title);
        $fromMail = "=?utf-8?B?$from_name?= <".trim($this->mail_from).">";

        $args = array(
            'Source' => $fromMail,
            'Destination' => array(
                'ToAddresses' => array($email)
            ),
            'Message' => array(
                'Subject' => array(
                    'Data' => $subject,
                    'Charset' => 'utf-8',
                ),
                'Body' => array(
                    'Text' => array(
                        'Data' => $text,
                        'Charset' => 'utf-8',
                    ),
                    'Html' => array(
                        'Data' => $html,
                        'Charset' => 'utf-8',
                    ),
                ),
            )
        );


        $exceptionMessage = null;
        $result = null;
        try {
            /* @var $result \Aws\Result */
            $result = $sesClient->sendEmail($args);
        } catch (\Aws\Ses\Exception\SesException $e) {
            $exceptionMessage = $e->getMessage();
            echo $exceptionMessage;
        }

        $success = $result != null && $result['@metadata']['statusCode'] == 200;
        if ($success) {
            $message = null;
            $messageId = $result->get('MessageId');
        } else {
            $message = $exceptionMessage;
            $messageId = null;
        }

        $return = array(
            'success' => $success,
            'message' => $message,
            'message_id' => $messageId);

        return $return;
    }