[Asterisk-Users] asterisk management interface

[Cosmin Prund]

You can't possibly read conf files and present them to the user in a 
web-based form because of the complexity of the data in those file. Take 
the "extensions" configuration file for an example (as this is probably 
the most complex one). Settings in this file might specify a simple 
mapping between extensions and physical phones but it might as well 
include other things. Ex: dialing 500 on my PBX will reboot the server! 
Dialing 199 will ring two phones. You might also have IVR's in a an 
extensions.conf and very complex call-handling logic based on almost 
anything you can think of. There's plain simply no way of mapping that 
wealth of info into some structured form into a web page!

What I think is a better idea is to store ALL your info into a database 
and re-generate the configuration files whenever that data changes. You 
can get a very customizable system in place this way but, unless your 
needs are somewhat different you might be better off using one of the 
pre-built systems.

moona ather wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to make a web-based management interface of configuring 
> asterisk.... i wanted to know if it is as simple as reading the .conf 
> files and searching for the required section in the file and adding 
> users etc. or there are other steps involved too?? As I have seen many 
> such built codes on this site and found lots of code... kindly tell me 
> how complex it is and how many other steps are involved in making this 
> interface as i am new in this.
> Emmo.
>
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