Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/10/07 13:32

Henk Oegema wrote:
>> But what's the operating system going to do with them?
>>
>> The operating system doesn't take parameters. Rather, you run a program
>> (even if it is the shell) which does something with parameters.
> Yes jerry, you are right. That's exactly what I want. :)
> Sorry for my confusion.
>
> I want to pass the values of the three variables in the php script to my PBX
> dial plan (Asterisk):
>
> exten => 3014,1,Playback(wait-moment)
> exten => 3014,n,Set(days=...) <----Here I need the value of $days from the
> php script.
> exten => 3014,n,Set(hours=..) <----Here I need the value of $hour from the
> php script.
> exten => 3014,n,Set(minutes=..)<---Here I need the value of $minutes from
> the php script.
> exten => 3014,n,System(echo "the server uptime is ${days} days and ${hours}
> hours and ${minutes} minutes" | /usr/bin/text2wave -scale 1.5 -F
> 8000 -o /tmp/uptime.wav)
> exten => 3014,n,Playback(/tmp/uptime)
> exten => 3014,n,System(rm /tmp/uptime.wav)
> exten => 3014,n,Playback(goodbye)
> exten => 3014,n,Hangup()
>
>
> I use something similar to get my account balance from the web:
>
> exten => 3000,1,Answer
> exten => 3000,n,Playback(astcc-account-balance-is)
> exten =>
> 3000,n,Set(status=${CURL(http://localhost/credit/credit_dialnow.php)})
> <----HERE I GET MY ACCOUNT BALANCE.
> exten => 3000,n,SayDigits(${status})
> exten => 3000,n,Playback(vm-goodbye)
> exten => 3000,n,Hangup()
>

Before I get myself in trouble for making assumptions, :-) I should ask
some questions.

The stuff on the exten => lines. Are they something you type in? Are
they coming from a script file? Or are they something internal to your
dial plan?

Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with Asterisk.

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