[asterisk-users] How to pass variable back and forth from dialplan to php file?

[Steve Edwards]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, bruce bruce wrote:

> However, for this project, it seems that I can use php system() along 
> with grep to see the status of a peer with one line of code:
> 
> asterisk -rx "sip show peer $sip_peer" | grep -c "X-Lite"'
>
> Above ^^^ in Linux prompt returns 1 if $sip_peer is registered with 
> X-Lite else it returns 0.
> 
> But using system() I think the "" confuse php and value is always 
> returned as 0. $peer_count = system('asterisk -rx "sip show peer 
> $sip_peer" | grep -c "X-Lite"', $retval);
> 
> Should $sip_peer be inside another set of parenthesis?

The single quotes are skipping the evaluation of $sip_peer.

Try something like this:

system('asterisk -rx "sip show peer ' . $sip_peer . '" | grep -c "X-Lite"')

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