[asterisk-users] Compatibilty between agi for asterisk 13.8.0 and php5.6

[A J Stiles]

On Wednesday 04 May 2016, Mamadou NGOM wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> When I call my extension  the  agi script don't work well. when I look at
> the cli, that is what I have:
>  [stuff deleted] 
> <SIP/myprovider-00000007>AGI Tx >> agi_arg_1: 56
> <SIP/myprovider-00000007>AGI Tx >>
> <SIP/myprovider-00000007>AGI Rx << SET VARIABLE ****** 2
> <SIP/myprovider-00000007>AGI Tx >> 510 Invalid or unknown command
>  -- <SIP/myprovider-00000007>AGI Script *******.php completed, returning 0
> I looked on the Internet but I saw a clear answer
> it is sure that it is for the compatibility between php5.6 and agi. if
> somebody can help me.

It looks as though something might be going wrong in the AGI script itself.  
Did you use a "proper" AGI library, or a quick-and-dirty homebrew solution?  
(There is little virtue in walking all the way to the tool shed to fetch a 
chisel, if you know the screwdriver you already have in your drawer can be 
used for the job.  On the other hand, breaking your screwdriver by 
inappropriately using it as a chisel does not look too good either.  Knowing 
the difference is one of the qualities of a great programmer.)

SET VARIABLE is a legitimate enough command, but ****** probably is not a 
valid variable name.  Maybe there was a forbidden character in there before 
you redacted it?


I would try to isolate the problem, by writing an AGI script that *just* sets 
a variable to some fixed value and exits; and having a corresponding extension 
that *just* calls the AGI script, displays the variable's value in the CLI 
with a NoOp() statement and then hangs up.  When you know you can do that, and 
successfully read back the value from within your dialplan, *then* you can 
make it decide what value to put in that variable.

-- 
AJS

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