[asterisk-users] Help getting info from caller

[Steve Totaro]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Landy Landy <landysaccount at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I suggest checking out both ASTCC and ASTCC.  I learned a great deal by
dissecting the AGI scripts and dialplan pieces.

It is very helpful to watch an AGI run on the console with AGI debugging
turned on.

Thanks,
Steve T
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