[Asterisk-Users] CDR Web Search Frontend

[Chris Tooley]

Ok, so this seems to be in several threads:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/022328.html
I've not trimmed this message on purpose to have a collection of
thoughts, further in this thread, please trim and refer to the thread.

I think it's safe to say that a PHP based system is what is going to
garner the most support.  I'm not great at PHP yet, but will learn, need
to get this done.  I'll be happy to start on Voicemail which I think
ties into Extensions.  Extensions seems to be the biggest task and the
core of the work that ties in most other things.  I'd be happy to start
there but need some assistance.

http://www.vanderkraan.net/awacs/ is another start.  We need to converge
on something and there needs to be some cohesion on an architecture.

It's not all there, but it's a starter:

Voicemail:
	General {
		Audio Format (WAV/WAV49/G723SF)
		Send E-Mail From
		Max Length of Messages
		Max Length of Greetings
		Max Failed Logins
		Body of Email
		Contexts -> Mailbox Definitions
		}

	Mailbox Definitions {
		Mailbox Number (exten)
		Password
		Name
		E-Mail
		Pager E-Mail
		Attach (Yes/No)
		Timezone
		}


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:58, Jamie Carl wrote:
> Ok, is it time for my comments on all of this?
> 
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:56:22 -0500
>   Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:29, CW_ASN wrote:
> >> Yes, I know... but some people uses Windows and hates 
> >>web frontends (some
> >> customers, for example)...
> >> I hate Windows platforms, but I'm only a technician...
> >
> 
> If this is the case, obviously you need more experience in 
> creating user friendly web frontends.  Some that I have 
> seen are brilliant and look great on any OS.  PHP is best 
> suited to what we are trying to do, because it's powerful, 
> it has all the feature we want to use and it runs on the 
> server.  Introducing FTP transfers and other such 
> mechanisms is just asking for trouble.  Plus tying it to a 
> windows system is very Anti-productive.
> 
> >Then please reread the whole of my argument. I was 
> >arguing only against
> >a front end that couldn't be used on other platforms 
> >also. This is why I
> >was so down on VB, it is only usable on Windows. I was 
> >mildly down on
> >.net stuff only because of the potential to have the mono 
> >rug ripped out
> >from under you. At least with a C++ app and a cross 
> >platform widget set,
> >you could write for windows and get linux and BSD for 
> >nearly free.
> >
> 
> Steven, i resent the discrimination of VB programmers, 
> especially the comment: "those types of programmers are 
> unlikely to use linux in any fashion".  I've been writing 
> in VB for 8 years and it was the first language I learnt. 
>  I still use it occasionally.  Even though I use C on both 
> windows and Linux, Python and now PHP.  It has it's uses. 
> :)  Agreed though that this admin project is not one of 
> them. :)
> 
> 
> As for the rest of this discussion, I have already started 
> work on this Asterisk Web Interface. (visit 
> http://astweb.sourceforge.net).  The current release is 
> still only the CDR section, but things are starting to 
> evolve and I expect to have something usable in the next 
> few weeks.  It is being written in PHP and will attempt to 
> use ZERO OS-DEPENDANT code.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jamie Carl
> Jazz Inc.
> Email:  me at jazz-inc.net
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> Jabber: jazz at netmindz.net
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