[Asterisk-Users] Web UI - Best practices?

[Michiel van Baak]

On 11:51, Wed 14 Jun 06, Mike wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm stuck writing a Web GUI because nothing out there is exactly what I
> need.  I'm not writing something as extensive as what _is_ out there, but
> just something that allows users to change where their calls are forwarded
> and other small things like that.
>  
> What I wanted to know is what is recommended by those you successfully wrote
> their own UI :
>  
> 1) Modifying the config directly in the Asterisk RealTime DB and and use
> Asterisk Realtime? This seems like the obvious choice, but I have a bad
> feeling about this method...especially with respect to future changes I
> would make to my UI or that the Asterisk dev team would make to their own
> tables / code
>  
> 2) Using custom tables I make up myself, and querying that DB with the MySQL
> command directly in the .conf files (or Realtime asterisk for that
> matter)(http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL) ?
>  

I went for option 3:
WebUI writes stuff to db, and some script generates static
extensions.conf for the server.
I did not create something functional yet, but the
design/planning docs are ready.

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