asterisk users - Jun 2005 - A Way to Write DTMF Digits as text to CDR?

I've gotten my CDR working the way I like, but I am looking to customize it
a bit.  I have set up an IVR menu, which works great.  I would like to be able
to capture the prompted DTMF digits pressed by callers, to my CDR database but I
don't see any AGI or Asterisk commands that allow one to customize the CDR
contents.  Am I thinking about this on the wrong track?  If someone calls sales
for instance, and presses 44364 for their PO number when prompted, I just want
to have a text record of the digits they pressed in my CDR so I can easily view
it.  No trying to do database lookups or screen pops from it or anything fancy,
I'm trying to eat an elephant one bite at a time.  Anyone have a solution
for that?

I hope I'm not being a pest by asking a question every other day, but the
responses I've gotten have been very helpful.  I'm trying to learn as
much as I can from the array of documentation, and I swear I'm only asking
when I feel like I've exhausted what I could find.

You could simply put something in your dialplan / ivr that allows for
mysql insert into the cdr..


> I've gotten my CDR working the way I like, but I am looking to
customize
> it a bit.  I have set up an IVR menu, which works great.  I would like to
> be able to capture the prompted DTMF digits pressed by callers, to my CDR
> database but I don't see any AGI or Asterisk commands that allow one to
> customize the CDR contents.  Am I thinking about this on the wrong track?
> If someone calls sales for instance, and presses 44364 for their PO number
> when prompted, I just want to have a text record of the digits they
> pressed in my CDR so I can easily view it.  No trying to do database
> lookups or screen pops from it or anything fancy, I'm trying to eat an
> elephant one bite at a time.  Anyone have a solution for that?
>
> I hope I'm not being a pest by asking a question every other day, but
the
> responses I've gotten have been very helpful.  I'm trying to learn
as much
> as I can from the array of documentation, and I swear I'm only asking
when
> I feel like I've exhausted what I could find.
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On 6/1/05, PA <taihome@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've gotten my CDR working the way I like, but I am looking to
customize it a bit.  I have set up an IVR menu, which works great.  I would like
to be able to capture the prompted DTMF digits pressed by callers, to my CDR
database but I don't see any AGI or Asterisk commands that allow one to
customize the CDR contents.  Am I thinking about this on the wrong track?  If
someone calls sales for instance, and presses 44364 for their PO number when
prompted, I just want to have a text record of the digits they pressed in my CDR
so I can easily view it.  No trying to do database lookups or screen pops from
it or anything fancy, I'm trying to eat an elephant one bite at a time. 
Anyone have a solution for that?
What language are you using with AGI?  If for example you use PHP, the
digits the user presses are recorded in the array returned by
get_data.

For example:

$theButtons = $agi->get_data('beep', 10000, 3);

$theButtons['result'] will record the 3 digits the user pressed and
wait up to 10 seconds in between each button pressed.

Michael