[asterisk-users] What do you use? .conf or AEL?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 08:22:39 Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> For my appication, I get on OK with pure "dialplan". I have a fully
>> featured PBX system which runs on nothing more than dialplan, and I'm
>> happy with it. I do have something "higher level" that generates some of
>> the dialplan for me, but I still had to write that dialplan in the first
>> place and I was happy to do it in pure "dialplan".
>
> My viewpoint is that you should work on separation of your application code
> versus data, so that other than new development, your dialplan should be
> completely static and never need changing (other than, like I said, new
> development).

One mans program is another mans data....

But what would you call "new development"? Say I have a site who has many 
extensions and they then wanted to create a call-group - ie. one new 
extension, ring multiple phones?

In my world, they go to the web interface, create the extension, tick a 
selection of existing extensions and the code then writes out a new 
segment of dialplan to create the new extension, issues an extensions 
reload command to asterisk and off it goes... The dialplan was static 
before, and is static after, it's just that I wrote some php to write 
dialplan based on user input...

How do others do it?

Gordon