[asterisk-users] make func_realtime work like app_realtime (1.6)

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:22:25 Rob Hillis wrote:
> Wesley Haut wrote:
> > Yell at me if you will, but I hate func_realtime - it's not very
> > usable nor is it change-friendly (update your database and your
> > dialplan completely breaks).
>
> I agree completely.  As it stands, the REALTIME() function is nearly
> completely useless.  If Asterisk had better string manipulation
> functionality, it would be /marginally/ better, though still not much good.
>
> A far better approach would be to allow you to specify the specific
> field you want to retrieve - the same way that you do for a write.
> /That/ would make the function many times more useful than it currently is.

What if I made it work with the HASH() dialplan function, similar to how
func_odbc works?  Keys are column names, values are the associated field
value.

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Tilghman