Posted by Henk Oegema on 10/10/07 14:35

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> 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?
This is what I type in myself. I make a dialplan to my own needs.

As you can see in an ealier reply to day, I've solved the problem. :)
>
> Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with Asterisk.
>

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