[Asterisk-Users] Dynamically setting up/tearing down extensions

[Anton Tinchev]

Is the problem same if I wonna to have dynamic mail boxes?
Steven J. Sobol wrote:

> Hello, * newbie here,
> 
> I'm designing a setup that is to eventually be used in a production 
> virtual PBX/VoIP service.
> 
> Customers need to be able to change their setups over the web - I want 
> them to be able to do simple things like setting up call forwarding, as 
> well as more intricate stuff that will require me to re-generate their 
> dialplans. 
> 
> Administration of the service is to be web-based.
> 
> I'm looking at DynExtenDB (and have played with it). I love that it reads 
> the dialplans out of a MySQL database - that is a critical issue for me. 
> But it has some issues.
> 
> I have a test dialplan with one call to Playback() - just plays a wav file 
> then exits. When DynExtenDB() is called, it adds one extra step that calls 
> DynExtenDB_Free()...
> 
> --If I let the wav file play to the end, DynExtenDB_Free() is called 
> properly. If I hang up prematurely, it isn't, and it also isn't called if 
> I set the dialplan to dial out (for example, to forward the call to my 
> cell phone).
> 
> --If DynExtenDB_Free() *is* called properly, and I then make another call, 
> DynExtenDB() doesn't seem to be called again.
> 
> --I'm not sure that setting up a dialplan for extension 'h' is a good 
> idea. What if I call, and then someone else calls and I hang up in the 
> middle of the call? 
> 
> I am ready and willing to make changes to the source to DynExtenDB. In 
> fact, I'd like to get it to a point where it could be used in a production 
> environment. But I have a lot of questions before I can do that.
> 
> BTW, I have looked in the archives, and it's been suggested that maybe AGI 
> is a better way to handle this sort of thing - but wouldn't the same 
> issues still exist??
> 
> Thanks
>    SJS
>