[Asterisk-Users] Easy to Access Telephone Directory AGI

[Alberto Sagredo]

Really interesting.

Thanks Hannes!!

Hannes Vogel wrote:

>I've written myself a easy to use telephone directory
>which I use at home and thought it may be of interrest
>to others.
>
>The purpose of this agi script is to provide an online
>telephone directory that can be easily accessed using
>the numbers on the phone dial pad.
>
>You select entries by spelling out the name of the
>person you want to contact using the phone dial pad.
>Now this is normally pretty labourious so the script
>provides a few shortcuts to make things easier.
>
>The best way to illustrate this is by example:
>Say you want to phone John Smith:
>- You would start by typing 5, this would find all
>entries that start with j,k or l.
>- Next you would type 6 which would narrow down the
>selection to all tries starting with either "j", "k"
>or "l" followed by either "m", "n" or "o".
>- You continue to spell out the name in this fashion
>(4 = gHi, 6 = mnO, etc) until either a distinct match
>is found in the direcotry or the number of
>matches is 9 or less.
>
>If a distinct match is found the number associated
>with the name is returned and can be dialed.
>
>If the number of matches is 9 or less you can have an
>IVR menu containing the matching names built on the
>fly and you will be prompted to select a name (e.g.
>Press 1 for John Smith, Press 2 for John Doe etc).
>Once a name is selected the number associated with the
>name is returned and can be dialed.
>
>
>Now you might think that this is still pretty
>laborious but in fact you usually only have to spell
>out the first few letter of the first name and the
>last name to get a good match.
>
>
>Other feature include:
>
>- Being able to jump to the last name without having
>to finish spelling out the first name (i.e. Press 0 to
>skip to the last name)
>- Multiple numbers can be associated with a name. In
>this case you will be prompted to select which number
>you wanted returned for dialing e.g. Press 1 for Home,
>Press 2 for Business, etc)
>- Undo last typed entry in case you misstyped
>something
>- Wildcard matching (Press 1 to match any letter)
>- IVR menus built on the fly so you do not need to
>prerecord anything
>- IVR menus cached (the more you use it the quicker it
>gets)
>- Returns the selected number in the variable
>"DIRNUMBER"
>
>The code can be found in the Digium Asterisk Users
>Forum (I was not sure if I should post approx 900
>lines of code to this list)
>
>http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=3727
>
>I can also send it direct if anyone is interrested.
>
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