[Asterisk-Dev] Callingcard - one last question

[brian]

Only in CVS head

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Terence Parker
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Callingcard - one last question
>
> > > I'm finally done with the PHP side of my calling card app - works
> nicely,
> > > and quite highly configurable/flexible. I've just got a few questions
> > > regarding the actual 'payment deduction' process though.
> > >
> > > My extensions.conf (relevant part) is currently :
> > > (actual dial string is pseudo only... bits need chopping off)
>
> -- snip --
>
> > Show application dial
> >
> > look at option L
> >
> > bkw
>
> I typed 'show application dial' but didn't see 'L' listed anywhere -
> perhaps
> it was not yet implemented in Asterisk-0.7.2 ?
>
> Anyhow, I have now got it all to work... I didn't realise that the AGI
> application run by the 'h' rules would have the extension set to 'h' - so
> everyone can ignore what I said in my last e-mail! My script works just
> the
> way I want it to now.... sourcecode to be published soon so that everybody
> can tell me what a load of rubbish it is :-)
>
> I do have one last question though regarding variables. Though I have got
> my
> script to work, my current solution of storing the cost for the current
> call
> in the users table seems rather inelegant. Basically I have two tables :
> one
> with the charges for every country, the other with the users. On first run
> it's easy to look up the country details (price etc...) and the user
> details - but because the actual money deduction is done at hangup time,
> it's not till the second run of the script that it needs to know what
> price
> the call is. Problem is at this point - 'agi_extension' becomes 'h', set
> by
> the hangup rules, so finding the right price from country code would be
> impossible - therefore I made sure that on the first run the price for the
> current call is temporarily stored in the users table.
>
> Surely there is a better way? Can I not have Asterisk store this data as a
> variable for that call? I know how to set variables in AGI - but how about
> to retrieve them? I only know how to retrieve the basic AGI header
> variables.....
>
> Thanks for the help, much appreciated.
>
> Terence
>
>
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