[asterisk-users] Help getting info from caller

[Landy Landy]

--- On Sat, 1/2/10, Landy Landy <landysaccount at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Landy Landy <landysaccount at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Help getting info from caller
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 9:01 AM
> Hello. Happy New Year to everyone.
> 
> I have a small WISP and would like to have customers to
> call our number to check their balance. I am planning on
> writing an AGI with php so it can get the customer info from
> the customer database. I don't know how to interact with the
> caller while in the agi script so this is what I have in
> mind:
> 
> 
> [test-agi]
> exten => 33,1,Answer()
> exten => 33,n,Wait(0.5)
> exten => 33,n,BackGround(please-enter)
> exten => 33,n,BackGround(customer-account)
> exten => 33,n, ---- I would like to set a variable here
> but don't know how -----
> exten => 33,n,BackGround(enter-password)
> exten => 33,n, ---- I would like to set a variable here
> but don't know how -----
> exten => 33,n,AGI(testphp.agi,${ACCOUNT},${PASSWORD})
> ---- receive the balance here from agi ----
> 
> exten => 33,n,Verbose(".... This is agi status
> ...${AGISTATUS}...")
> exten => 33,n,hangup()
> 
> I've never worked with agi but, I'm reading some documents
> I found online but, need more help trying to get this
> working.
> 
> Thanks in advanced for your help.
> 

Can I use:

exten => 33,n,Set(ACCOUNT=waitexten()) ???