Voting Application

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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I would like to set up an Asterisk dial plan that allows callers to cast votes on various issues by pressing a corresponding number on their telephone keypad.

In other words, the caller will dial in to Asterisk and hear a pre-recorded message that gives them their voting options (i.e., Press 1 to vote for this, Press 2 to vote for that).

After the caller presses a number to vote, Asterisk will play a thank you message and hang up.

I know how to set up the pre-record messages, but I don’t know how to record the votes. I would like to send the votes to a database where I can retrieve them and keep a tally of all of the votes.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

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you could either use an AGI to do this, or even easier would be to use the mysql application and do it all from the dialplan. at the CLI :

CLI> show application MYSQL which gives you all you need to know. how complex you make it is up to you, but simple vote counting is a few minutes work.

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Thank you for your help.

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hello, guy:
i think your solution is good. you read the input and and use agi or perl inster into database. mysql is a good option.
something likes this:
s, 1, addvalues.pl | value 1 | value 2
after then you get the values using $AVR or some name in perl. you check from voip-info.org.