asterisk users - Mar 2005 - dialing from a website. How to start...?

Hi all!

We use a PHP-portal for management of our projects & contacts. Now I 
would like to make it possible to dial contacts directly from the portal.
Since users have to log in, I can use that to determine which office 
phone the call should originate from. And the number-to-be-dialed is of 
course also listed.

How do I commence here? I'm pretty sure others have done this already, 
so I was wondering whether there's someone who can point me in the right 
direction...  :-)

(Preferable in PHP, since that's the flavor of choice of our portal)


Regards,
   Evert

Evert,

The best way to do this is have your PHP code put a control file in the 
outgoing directory of Asterisk. This then invokes an Asterisk macro that 
calls the user, then transfers them to the contact. The format of the 
file is at:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+auto-dial+out

I run a consulting firm doing (amongst other things) Asterisk work. If 
you're interested, we can install Asterisk, configure it to talk to your 
telephone system, set up the click to dial, and integrate it with your 
PHP - email me off list.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
Telephony, Database, Unix consulting worldwide
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/


Evert Meulie wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> We use a PHP-portal for management of our projects & contacts. Now I 
> would like to make it possible to dial contacts directly from the portal.
> Since users have to log in, I can use that to determine which office 
> phone the call should originate from. And the number-to-be-dialed is of 
> course also listed.
> 
> How do I commence here? I'm pretty sure others have done this already, 
> so I was wondering whether there's someone who can point me in the
right
> direction...  :-)
> 
> (Preferable in PHP, since that's the flavor of choice of our portal)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Evert
> 
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