[Asterisk-Users] Web UI - Best practices?

[Mike Fedyk]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:51:06AM -0400, 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
>>     
>
> Non-static real time mean that your PBX becomes non-functional if the DB
> server has a problem (or is even a bit loaded).
Why is it that more people haven't turned to LDAP to solve this problem?

It is optimized for a light write and heavy read workload that seems 
perfectly suited for use in a PBX dial plan.