[Asterisk-Users] Basic Asterisk questions

[Scott Stingel]

Hello-

I apologise for the basic nature of these questions:

I am considering using Asterisk/Digium for the implementation of a simple
IVR application - inbound E1's only.  All I want to do is to answer each
line, play some prompts, receive a DTMF, play some more prompts, then log
everything, and hang up.  Seems simple enough.

I've been looking over the various web sites and have downloaded the
asterisk tar files, and looked at the README's contained therein.   I have a
few question though:

(a) For my logging, I want to insert records into an external SQL database.
I don't understand the general way to call SQL routines that I have written,
or to other access code outside of the Asterisk environment

(b) Where can I read about events and how they are handled?  For example,
upon the reception of a DTMF during a prompt, does the prompt get
interrupted as it should?  Same thing on disconnect events.

No doubt I have not read some very basic documentation or user notes, so if
anyone can steer me to the proper documents to read, would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks
Scott Stingel


Scott M. Stingel 
Emerging Voice Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, California and London, England

Email:          scott at evtmedia.com  
URL:            www.evtmedia.com