[Asterisk-Users] variable in extension.conf

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:44, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:29, Rattana BIV wrote:
> > I try to detect if an user who use Netmeeting is connected
> > or not. I think in order to do that, Netmeeting-user open a
> > web page (in PHP) et press the button Connect or Disconnect
> > and the PHP set the Environnement variable which will be
> > proceeded in extension.conf
> >
> > So i need Environnement Variable, I have test it with :
> > s,1,SetVar,toto=$VARENV where VARENV is my environnement
> > variable but toto not take the value. perhaps should I try
> > toto=${VARENV} or toto=${$VARENV}.
>
> You can not pass information that way. The environment
> variable for your web server is JUST for your web server. It
> will not be available to asterisk. Your webserver should not
> run as root, nor as the same user as asterisk. Your best bet
> would be to get netmeeting to register to asterisk when it is
> opened, then asterisk will know the user is available.

You might be able to write an interface in PHP to the manager
port and pass commands (perhaps to set database entries?).

-Tilghman