What we do is only accept requests from certain IP addresses (the ones used for posting the data from Rock7) – this protects us from any nefarious posts.

http://username:Password@myserver.com/sms-control/receive.php

Can the RockBlock system do the same?

If you do something cool with your RockBLOCK do let us know!

The biggest problem that I had with this is that at the end of the day it appears that Godaddy does not allow Python or Pearl scripts. PHP is allowed, so this was the solution.

I really appreciate the help on this.
Thanks!

At the moment, the example php does nothing with the data (it’s not saved anywhere) – so you’ll need to add this code to the script.

Here’s a tutorial to get you going: https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_create.asp

You should just be able to append the variables into the file, something like:

$myfile = fopen(“rockblock-data.txt”, “a”) or die(“Unable to open file!”);
fwrite($myfile, $transmit_time);
fwrite($myfile, ” “);
fwrite($myfile, $data);
fwrite($myfile, “\n”);
fclose($myfile);

If you have any problems opening the file – it’ll probably be an issue with file permissions.

Good Luck!!

I really appreciate your help as my expertise is arduino/raspberry pi/python/circuits, and the WEB stuff is not easy for me. Would the following work.

1) I create a file in my WEB root directory called rb.php
2) I use the script you provide above
3) I point the Rockblock to http://www.mydomain.com/rb.php
4) I send a test message from rockblock, which is then directed to 3) above

If I do this, then where does the data end up from your script? Is there a text file in my root folder your script directs the data to, or where do I now find the data.

I really appreciate your help. I have spend about 20 hours trying to figure this out, but there are no simple tutorials to follow on how this works, so if you could give me some guidiance I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
PJM

It all depends on what your web-hosting provides and how it’s setup – so it’s hard to provide definitive answers!

Take a look at some basic examples to get up to speed with a hello world example; i’d recommend Python.

Here’s a link that should put you in the right direction: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/webservers.html