[asterisk-users] Dialplan programming vs. AGI vs. ???

[Yuan LIU]

>From: "Yuan LIU" <yliu11 at hotmail.com>
> >But I'm curious as to the approach others use. Is doing dialplan
> >coding in an AGI more efficient, or do people just do it that way
> >because it's easier than learning dialplan code? Or are there some
> >things that people think they can't do any other way?
> >
> >So I'm just after some ideas, really, possibly to work out if it's
> >worth my while going down the AGI route for future projects, or
> >not!?!
>
>
>Gordon,
>
>I haven't done half you have, so this is just based on what I have read 
>(and tested) so far.  You are probably asking about EAL rather than AGI.  
>You'll need AGI only if there are functions you can't implement within 
>Asterisk and you don't want to write a full application for Asterisk.  If 
>you are thinking about programming flexibility, EAL could be your friend 
>because it has "programming language like" structures so your project 
>remain manageable.

AEL, for Asterisk Extension Language, not EAL.  See ael.txt or README.ael 
(depending on version) in doc/ directory.  Shows how little I have learned 
about Asterisk.

Yuan Liu