[asterisk-users] Routing incoming call based on caller id

[John Novack]

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Danny Nicholas wrote:
> Once again I've "fooled" you into a better suggestion :)  I  was actually
> going to suggest something like this, but hadn't had my second cup of
> coffee.
>
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 12:13 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Routing incoming call based on caller id
>
> Un-top-posting...
>
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>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lyle Giese
>>     
>
>   
>> Currently I have this in my extensions.conf for incoming calls on our 
>> house phone line:
>>
>> [housemenu]
>> exten => s,1,GotoIF($["${CALLERID(num)}" = > "815xxxxxxx"]?s|12)
>> ; 815xxxxxxx is our home phone number, when caller id 
>> fails or is missing that is what is recorded.
>>
>> I want to expand this from just branching on our home phone number to 
>> include any toll free number, (800, 866, 877, etc) as a telemarketer 
>> screening system.  But I am not sure of the syntax here, but don't want 
>> to add another line for each 8xx toll free npa either.
>>     
>
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>
>   
>> This might be the worst suggestion you'll get
>>     
>
> Get's my vote :)
>
>   
>> but it WILL work
>>
>> - exten => s,1,AGI(testval.agi,${CALLERID(num)})
>> - exten => s,2,Gotoif(${marketer})
>>
>> The AGI should read a variable from STDIN, evaluate the first 3 digits 
>> and return variable marketer as TRUE or FALSE.  You can do this in about 
>> 30 lines of PERL/PHP.
>>     
>
> Creating unnecessary processes, dragging a bajillion bytes of interpreter 
> off disk and into memory, parsing and interpreting 30 lines of script* all 
> to avoid 1/2 dozen lines of dialplan doesn't sound like the correct 
> approach -- even though I am an AGI fanboy.
>
> [housemenu]
>  	exten = s,1,			verbose(1,[${CONTEXT}:${EXTEN}])
>  	exten = s,n,			set(NPA=${CALLERID(num):0:3})
>  	exten = s,n,			gotoif($["800" = "${NPA}"]
> ?toll-free,s,1)
>  	exten = s,n,			gotoif($["888" = "${NPA}"]
> ?toll-free,s,1)
>  	exten = s,n,			gotoif($["866" = "${NPA}"]
> ?toll-free,s,1)
>  	exten = s,n,			gotoif($["877" = "${NPA}"]
> ?toll-free,s,1)
>
> (untested, but should be close)
>
> Simple to maintain and obvious.
>
> *) If you decide to go the AGI route, it's not quite that simple. You have 
> to follow the AGI protocol where the first thing you need to do is read 
> the AGI environment passed to you by Asterisk on STDIN. You should use an 
> established AGI library and use a "real" language like C -- (ducking 
> quickly).
>
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