[Asterisk-Dev] AGI Question Using Read

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 20:53 -0500, Nate Kapi wrote:
> I was trying to use read to get input and set it as a variable to use
> in the dial string but I am having problems and the variable is
> getting set to a null value.
> 
> I was doing something similar to this and could not get it to work
> 
> $AGI->exec ("Read", "numbertocall");
> $AGI->exec ("Dial", "IAX2/username\@provider/${numbertocall}");
> 
> Also i tried using the "SetVar" command like this and setting the
> variable after read then using this variable in the dial command
> instead
> 
> $AGI->exec ("SetVar", "destnumber=${numbertocall}");
> $AGI->exec ("Dial", "IAX2/username\@provider/${destnumbertocall}");
> 
> I really need to use the read command instead of get data. 
> 
> Any help here is very much appreciated. I am doing my best trying to learn.

First lesson then is the difference between using asterisk and doing
development work with in the code. You asked a user question,
specifically something that is outside of the C code. This is not the
forum for such a post. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>