[Asterisk-Dev] Web GUI

[John Todd]

At 12:38 PM -0400 8/8/03, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
>Alastair Maw wrote:
>
>>Suggest you look at:
>>http://andreasotto.net/asterisk/
>
>
>I serouisly hope you are joking.   DynExtenDB is absolutey the WRONG 
>way to bring database based extensions into Asterisk.
>
>Use a switch.   Karl Putland and myself have worked on mysql_switch, 
>but due to lack of interest we never finished it.
>
>Jeremy McNamara

Perhaps you may interpret this thread as renewed interest.

As with all open-source code, if there is a running version of a 
solution (i.e.: code can be downloaded and compiled) then that is 
what will be used.  If you have code that will provide this function 
in a cleaner and more integrated way, then by all means send a patch 
to the bugs.digium.com list (if unfinished) or submit it to kram for 
approval (if finished.)

I have several locations where a robust SQL-based extension database 
would help quite a bit in rollout.  There are much, much larger 
Asterisk installations on the horizon, and one of the major 
difficulties right now is showing how daily administration will be 
done for hundreds or thousands of extensions.  Right now I shrug and 
say "Well, you'll have to have someone manually configure all the 
files."  The lack of a database and permissions structure leaves 
Asterisk right where traditional PBX systems are: completely at the 
mercy of the admin.  Since we seem to be moving the power of the 
phone system further out into the hands of the users, it does make 
sense that a Web GUI would allow them to control their own telephony 
configurations.

JT