[Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for Asterisk

[Chuck Bunn]

Joseph wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:34 -0600, Chuck Bunn wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I am in the process of developing a time card application that 
>>integrates with Asterisk and I would like to know if anyone has done 
>>this and if so can you recommend an open source time card application 
>>that might reduce the amount of work required to connect it to Asterisk. 
>>I do not want to reinvent the wheel and write a WEB based time card app, 
>>I would rather spend my time getting Asterisk to connect to it. I will 
>>be using LAMP so it will be written in PHP instead of C...
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>>Thanks
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>Do you mean employee time-card? With mysql database this would be very
>interesting project.
>Do you have a short description of what it would do?
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Hi,

Thanks for responding. The basic system would work as follows. An 
employee would call in and would transfer to a menu (either via an 
operator or via the phone system if no operator is available). Something 
like press 1 for sales and service press 2 for accounting and press 3 if 
you are an employee. Upon pressing three the user would be asked to 
enter their employee ID and password. The system would capture the 
employee ID , time of day and if available the caller ID from the 
location they are calling from. When they are finished they would repeat 
the process thus capturing the finish data for filling out a time card. 
The usage is a group of field nurses that need an easy way to enter data 
into there time cards since the Internet is not always available from 
the locations they call from. Although the caller ID can easily be 
spoofed this is not as important as capture of the time and employee 
data for filling out a time card. A second application uses the same 
theory but for janitors. The caller ID helps confirm they are where they 
are supposed to be. There are several PHP time cards out there but I am 
trying to find the best for interfacing with Asterisk. Phase one would 
be to capture the data to a flat file phase 2 would be to get it into a 
database, phase three would interface it to an existing LAMP based time 
card apt and phase 4 would allow for phone access to information stored 
in the time card such as how many hours worked, hours by day etc. A 
final phase would interface these to both Peachtree and Quickbooks.

I am working on a more definitive outline right now but I wanted some 
feedback from the development community before doing so, so that I did 
not reinvent the wheel.

Thanks
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