[asterisk-users] Asterisk AMI - PHP or Node.js?

[Daniel Jenkins]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Shahid H <shahidh at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,


> I would like to develop a Call Center Dialer (outbound and inbound calls)
> and it would use AMI method to communicate with Asterisk Server.
>
> A daemon would need to run in the background, would you recommend coding
> in PHP or Node.js? which would be much faster and stable.
>


I've done something very similar, and I've done it with Node.js - it's a
great fit for it; whereas you're kinda forcing PHP to do something it
wasn't 100% designed for; in my experience Node is a much better fit for it.

I've spoken at Astricon about doing it and it's fairly easy with modules
that already exist in the Node.js ecosystem.

The talk I did in 2012 is probably the most relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwzbgR_adQ

The slides can be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/danjenkins/asterisk-html5-and-nodejs-a-world-of-endless-possibilities-14881614

And my module for talking to asterisk via the AMI is available on npm
https://npmjs.org/package/asterisk-ami

On the question of stability/speed, I don't know to be honest but I would
guess that Node would be faster due to it's async nature; but whether you
would really see much of that speed gain due to async is entirely dependant
on your application and how it runs, what it talks to, are any of these
things potentially blocking.

Node.js is nearing V1 but to be honest, it's the most stable it's ever
been, with HUGE companies using it in production environments. The system
that I wrote is still running on Node v 0.6 and has been up and running
with near 0 downtime for over a year, and the reasons for downtime are
external, such as server moves, DNS changes etc.


>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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Let me know if you want to know any more.

Dan
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