I feel like my current logic could be improved...tips?

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I have a web application (apache2 web server) that creates call files and things when a user submits a form. I’m using PHP to do all of this…create the call file, create the .gsm, edit extensions.conf with the context needed for that specific call and so on. (the form performs a POST to the .php file and the .php file does all kinds of stuff)

One thing that I’m unsure about, and hoping for a better solution, is when I submit the form…the php file opens /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf, appends a context to the bottom of the file…then reloads the dialplan from the same PHP script.

Is this overkill? Is there some other method of doing all of this? AGI?

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hi,

you might put the dialplan in mysql. with realtime extensions, your php could make immediate dialplan changes via updating table ‘extensions_table’.

regards,
derek

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Hi,

Could you make use of macros, etc in the dialplan to make code more generic. So removing the need to auto-generate new contexts?

Regards,
Mark

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[quote=“dereklinrs”]hi,

you might put the dialplan in mysql. with realtime extensions, your php could make immediate dialplan changes via updating table ‘extensions_table’.

regards,
derek[/quote]

derek, I’m sorry…I don’t follow =\