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

[Gilmore, Gerry]

Chuck,

 

Actually, Caller ID cannot - so far as I know - "easily be spoofed".
While you can usually disable sending "caller ID" by the *6x method, be
aware that if you call an 800 number, that 800 number *will* get the
calling party number. It's needed for billing the 800# recipient.

 

With PRI, if you have it correctly provisioned by the carrier and they
support it, etc., you can legitimately spoof a caller name and number,
but I doubt a nurse or janitor would maintain a PRI line to do this. :-)

 

Gerry

 

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary
and those who don't.

 

Gerry Gilmore

Field Applications Engineer

Intel Corporation

(http://www.intel.com)

 

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[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Bunn
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for
Asterisk

 

Joseph wrote: 

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:34 -0600, Chuck Bunn wrote:
  

	Hi,
	 
	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...
	 
	Thanks
	    

 
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?
 
  

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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