[asterisk-dev] GUI Development Framework & Asterisk...

[Darren Schreiber]

Thanks for the thoughts.

Ok, I will see if any of this can be re-used code. I am still trying to
figure out if I can integrate modules easily without a high cost of
performance that are not in PHP. I don't see what I can not, so this may
work great. I will see what's in the repository for asterisk-gui.

The TCAPI framework is in a ruby-style PHP framework called CakePHP though I
am considering switching to Zend Framework which looks promising, to answer
your question about server-side stuff. That said it has still crossed my
mind of writing the majority of the app in a client-side language (even
javascript) now that the frameworks are so extensible.

I'll keep you posted on my findings re: asterisk-gui. And again, I hope this
is the right home for this discussion :)

- Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: bkruse [mailto:bkruse at digium.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:11 AM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] GUI Development Framework & Asterisk...

Darren Schreiber wrote:
> Hello,
>     Hopefully this note is not misplaced (asterisk-gui and asterisknow 
> looked more like user help forums)...
>  
>     I am working on a project called TCAPI to create a layered 
> approach to developering GUIs for telephony applications in a 
> rapid-development style framework. The framework assists in displaying 
> UI components and generating configuration files for various 
> soft-switches. I think I am going to try and make this project work 
> with Asterisk.
>  
>     I am wondering what the interest in this idea might be?  The idea 
> behind the architecture is here:
> http://www.tcapi.org/index.php?title=Developer:Overview
>  
>     Some code is written but it's still very much a work in progress. 
> There is not-yet released code to make the framework function with 
> DoJo, YUI, etc. and also some comet-based modules for conferencing and 
> channel monitoring in real-time via the web. More to come, of course
> :-) The concepts are not that different from FreePBX's modularity, but 
> probably more layered in the approach.
>  
>     I'm also at AstriCon if anyone is also there and interested in 
> discussing this in-person.
>  
>     Thanks in advance for your feedback.

I think this would be great, anything that promotes Asterisk is great.

I would still, however, look into the current Asterisk-gui to see what
interfaces are already available and the library in javascript that is
already used. You can do raw config file management and have an inbuilt http
server in Asterisk (in which you can do manager-over-http).

If you are talking about possibly doing a server-side implementation
(php/rails/anything except javascript) these libraries and code that is
already in place in the Asterisk-gui can still help.

Information on obtaining this source here: 
http://asterisknow.org/install-related

The inbuilt functions and way we interact with Asterisk could save you a lot
of time :)

Best of luck,

-bk


>  
> Sincerely,
>     Darren Schreiber
>  
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