[asterisk-users] Website callback

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Michiel van Baak <michiel at vanbaak.info> wrote:
> On 15:45, Wed 18 Jun 08, Mark Hamilton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a website where customers enter their phone numbers to be called. I'd
>> like them to have to put in information and 'schedule' a call.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1)      Call Immediately
>>
>> 2)      Call in the next _ minutes
>>
>> 3)      Call me tomorrow, same time.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, Asterisk will pull two variables from this php websites, $phonenumber
>> and $timetocall. $timetocall will need to be calculated as to exactly what
>> time Asterisk will need to call.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then, Asterisk calls it (by way of call files? Either putting the call file
>> in at the time it needs to be called, or I don't know what else) and then if
>> the call is has a human on it, plays a message saying "We're now
>> transferring you to an agent. Please wait." And transfer that call to a
>> queue.
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I do this? Is there something prebuilt like this?
>
> I would store the info in a database (RDBMS, flat file, whatever) and
> have a cronjob running every minute that processes this info, creating
> call files when needed.
> --
>
> Michiel van Baak
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Check this thread
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-February/031334.html

It might save you a great deal of time.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro