<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, DHAVAL INDRODIYA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhaval.it01034@gmail.com">dhaval.it01034@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello All,<br><br>after so long time i posted a new question regarding billing, hope anyone have some solution.<br><br>I have situation in that i want to do billing of more than 1 call in real time below are scenario and explanation. <br>
<br><br>Scenario:<br> A customer called my DID number and after that from here i dial few number let say 5 number. once number are placed into DIAL<br>i will put this customer into conference [MEETME] , once a Members are picked up call they will also patched into conference and <br>
talking is started, every thing working fine with DIAL-PLAN and DB look up. <br><br>Now, i want to do billing on customer dialed my DID, and from that actually it DIALED 5 numbers, how can i DO real time billing <br>into this situation, like numbers can be different It can be ISD,STD,Local and also free .<br>
<br>if customer having initial balance of $100 then how can i check balance every <a href="http://time.in" target="_blank">time.in</a> a situation once balance is nil then i want to disconnect <br>calls . is any one facing this type of situation.<br>
<br>give me some idea ,<br><br>regards<br><font color="#888888">Dhaval<br><br>
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<a href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users" target="_blank">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Dhaval,<br>This sounds very much like a system I'm working on for a client right
now. I'm not permitted to disclose much about it due to the NDA i
signed, but I'll risk giving you a point in the right direction. <br>
<br>First, you should create a table in your database that has a column called callid, and other columns that you will have to decide upon. This table will be called something like '<i>call_references</i>'. Oh, and you'll want to define callid as the primary key for records in that table, but DO NOT make it an autoincrement, you're going to populate it with a value that is described in the next step.<br>
<br>Second, at the beginning of the original call you mentioned, define a variable that will be unique to that call. I personally have done this by stripping all non-digits from the caller's callerid (using Set(newcid=${FILTER(0123456789,${CALLERID(number)})} ), and then adding the to ${EPOCH}. I did it this way: ${MATH(${newcid}+${EPOCH})}. <br>
<br>Next (this is where I have to start being a bit vague), you're going to perform an INSERT query, creating a new call_references record (using that variable I just showed you how to construct as callid's value). <br>
<br>Now, when you defined that variable, you should have preceded the variable name with two underscores ( __ ), which will tell Asterisk that channels spawned by the current channel will inherit that variable and it's value. <br>
<br>Voila, you now have a method for storing realtime data such as billing information between MULTIPLE calls. <br><br>I wish I could tell you more, but I can't violate my client's Non-Disclosure Agreement.<br><br>
Hope this helps you out!<br><br>Sherwood McGowan<br><br>