[Asterisk-Users] Outgoing calls for a fancy address book app

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 14:02, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I'd like to connect phpgroupware to asterisk: when a user click on a phone
> number, his phone rings and he gets connected to the number he just clicked.
> 
> I've tried by putting various files in /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing, without
> results (we are using SIP phones + CAPI channels).
> 
> Is there a way to do that ?
> (If it's impossible (something impossible in *, LOL ?!?) I will
> create an extension which the phpgroupware user should call, then it would DBGet
> the number my app has DBPut when the user clicked on the number, and call it.)

It is really simple. Read the sample.call file to figure out the format
to drop in /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing. From there there is no need for
dbput or  dbget unless you want to do something weird. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>