[Asterisk-Users] General AGI Question

[Michael Stearne]

On 5/25/05, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 00:14 -0400, Michael Stearne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a newbie and just discovered AGI (after learning a lot about
> > extensions.conf's language).  Before putting in a lot of time on
> > AGI/Perl/PHP I would like to know if its possible to do most of the
> > functionality performed in extensions.conf through AGI.  Can AGI be
> > used as a replacement for scripting a dialplan?
> 
> Yes you should be able to do most if not all the functionality.  You can
> send commands back to asterisk to dial, play sounds, etc.  I do not know
> if you can do *everything* but you should be able to do at least 90%,
> and in some ways do things you cant do other ways because you have
> better access to system, network and other similar resources.

Thanks!  It will make doing what we want (which is pretty simple)
easier because we are much more familiar with PHP.  Does the setting
up/maintaining of voicemail accounts still happen in voicemail.conf or
can that be done through AGI also?

Thanks,
Michael