Imp firing .PHP file for Xively feed update

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My Imp is programmed to ‘hit’ a .PHP file whenever a switch is activated. Via this .PHP, I was using the open.se APIs to create a tracking graph of when the switch was activated. Open.se seems to be going away so I am trying to move to Xively. I have seem the Imp example on the Xively website, but I would like to continue using the .PHP method because the .PHP is also doing a host of other things when the switch is activated.

Does anyone have a .PHP example that can update a Xively feed? My limited skills are not being successful.

My “JunkTest” feed (which I can write data to manually) is at: https://personal.xively.com/feeds/827469582

Thanks for any guidance.

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Why not let the imp do the xively stuff, and then let it call your php file before or afterwards?

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The Xively library docs are here

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Hi IJLabs. Have you looked at https://github.com/xively/xively-php and the examples at https://github.com/xively/xively-php/blob/master/index.php?

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trevor: Thanks. Yes, I tried to modify the examples on github and could not get them to work. This is probably due to user error (stupidity, that is) on my part.

I stripped out everything that I thought was not related to a simple example. Never got it to work, so after a good bit of time spent I decided to ask here.

BTW, I realize, of course, this is not a Imp question and a pure .PHP question. The Imp has been rock solid in my application for almost three years now. The Imp stability blows my mind.

I could modify the Agent code, but would rather not.

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:slight_smile: on stability. That’s the idea, you should be able to connect & forget…

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I have not ever used xively, but I do use PHP all the time.

I’ll try to find an example somewhere.

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mlseim: Thanks! I will take any guidance offered.

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Since I don’t know much about Xively, what do you mean by “Manually Writing” to it? Can you POST data to it?

And why is it so complicated? I looked at the PHP libraries and classes for Xively … what’s the deal with that?