Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
I write such apps all the time, i have written IVR apps that talk to SQL Server (Sage500), MySQL, our credit/debit card processing system. Regards Jon --- Thiago Maluf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fabio, of course that you can. One way to do it is working with app MYSQL(), where you will put your sql as argumment. read more in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL good luck, Thiago Maluf Resende. 2007/8/14, Fabio Ardeola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Does somebody know if I can save the answers made by the caller person on the IVR menu in a MySQL Database? If yes, can I save the CallerID as well? Thanks, Fabio Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- THIAGO MALUF RESENDE Consultor Voip e Programador WEB (Voip Developer and Web Developer) Tel: +55 21 86042100 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
Another way to do this, is to use the func_odbc library. Its very good for production use, on larger sites. We use it on all of our asterisk servers, and it works great. Venlig Hilsen/Kind Regards Jon Leren Schøpzinsky Solution Engineer Dansk Erhvervs-Telefon A/S tlf: +45 88200336 mob: +45 31206709 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Atis Sent: 14. august 2007 14:14 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL On 8/14/07, Thiago Maluf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fabio, of course that you can. One way to do it is working with app MYSQL(), where you will put your sql as argumment. read more in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL That's possible, but i wouldn't recommend on large production system. Using MySQL you would need to connect and disconnect all the time, and it takes resources.. I would suggest to append that info to CDR userfield (if you are storing your CDR in MySQL), and run periodically some script that extracts them. Of course it's more complex, but that would be my way. Regards, Atis -- Atis Lezdins, IT Responsible of BEST Riga, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 142239285 Skype: atis.lezdins Cell Phone: +371 28806004 [Tele2, Latvia] Work phone: +1 800 7502835 [Toll free, USA] ?BEST? - www.BEST.eu.org ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
One way to do it is working with app MYSQL(), where you will put your sql as argumment. read more in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL That's possible, but i wouldn't recommend on large production system. Using MySQL you would need to connect and disconnect all the time, and it takes resources.. I would suggest to append that info to CDR userfield (if you are storing your CDR in MySQL), and run periodically some script that extracts them. Of course it's more complex, but that would be my way. Using MYSQL() (or equivalent) heavily in the dialingplan is IMHO the nicest way of doing things like this. You can do lots of simultaneous calls before getting into trouble. Appending stuff to the CDR userfield is just plain ugly and asking for trouble (are you sure you can always separate the different values?). -- Andreas Sikkema ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
On 8/16/07, Andreas Sikkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using MYSQL() (or equivalent) heavily in the dialingplan is IMHO the nicest way of doing things like this. You can do lots of simultaneous calls before getting into trouble. Well, it is simple, but creates a LOT of load. Plus, if you might run in troubles, if you forget to do disconnect at some point (or lot of calls get's hanged up without disconnecting from MySQL). Appending stuff to the CDR userfield is just plain ugly and asking for trouble (are you sure you can always separate the different values?). Well, for me it is working excellently. Plus you get all the info already binded to call. I use # as separator - i don't have values that may contain it (and it's quite distinguishable when browsing DB) Regards, Atis -- Atis Lezdins, IT Responsible of BEST Riga, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 142239285 Skype: atis.lezdins Cell Phone: +371 28806004 [Tele2, Latvia] Work phone: +1 800 7502835 [Toll free, USA] ?BEST? - www.BEST.eu.org ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
Hi Does somebody know if I can save the answers made by the caller person on the IVR menu in a MySQL Database? If yes, can I save the CallerID as well? Thanks, Fabio Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
Hi Fabio, of course that you can. One way to do it is working with app MYSQL(), where you will put your sql as argumment. read more in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL good luck, Thiago Maluf Resende. 2007/8/14, Fabio Ardeola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Does somebody know if I can save the answers made by the caller person on the IVR menu in a MySQL Database? If yes, can I save the CallerID as well? Thanks, Fabio Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- THIAGO MALUF RESENDE Consultor Voip e Programador WEB (Voip Developer and Web Developer) Tel: +55 21 86042100 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
On 8/14/07, Thiago Maluf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fabio, of course that you can. One way to do it is working with app MYSQL(), where you will put your sql as argumment. read more in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL That's possible, but i wouldn't recommend on large production system. Using MySQL you would need to connect and disconnect all the time, and it takes resources.. I would suggest to append that info to CDR userfield (if you are storing your CDR in MySQL), and run periodically some script that extracts them. Of course it's more complex, but that would be my way. Regards, Atis -- Atis Lezdins, IT Responsible of BEST Riga, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 142239285 Skype: atis.lezdins Cell Phone: +371 28806004 [Tele2, Latvia] Work phone: +1 800 7502835 [Toll free, USA] ?BEST? - www.BEST.eu.org ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
On 8/14/07, Atis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's possible, but i wouldn't recommend on large production system. Using MySQL you would need to connect and disconnect all the time, and it takes resources.. I would suggest to append that info to CDR userfield (if you are storing your CDR in MySQL), and run periodically some script that extracts them. Of course it's more complex, but that would be my way. If the data you wish to store is more complex than stuffing in the CDR userfield would allow, you can always call out to an AGI which can write the data to whatever file format you want for later loading into a database. If you used FastAGI and a pre-forking AGI server model, you could even take the database connection hit when the AGI server starts. The per-call cost would then be the cost to establish the socket connection to the AGI server from Asterisk, the cost to perform the SQL inserts over an established database connection, plus whatever other calculation or transformation you needed to do before doing the insert. That architecture would hold up under a fairly large load. Perl's Asterisk::FastAGI framework lets you specify the number of pre-forked children to launch, plus you can tell each child to exit (spawning a replacement for the pool) after processing a certain number of transactions. It's very similar to the Apache prefork model. -- j. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
James / Atis / Thiago Let say that the user entry during the call is a reference number of a house to rent. Would be possible to check if the reference number is a valid entry on the MySQL database and then base on its answer define the next menu item on the IVR menu. Thanks, Fabio --- James FitzGibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/07, Atis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's possible, but i wouldn't recommend on large production system. Using MySQL you would need to connect and disconnect all the time, and it takes resources.. I would suggest to append that info to CDR userfield (if you are storing your CDR in MySQL), and run periodically some script that extracts them. Of course it's more complex, but that would be my way. If the data you wish to store is more complex than stuffing in the CDR userfield would allow, you can always call out to an AGI which can write the data to whatever file format you want for later loading into a database. If you used FastAGI and a pre-forking AGI server model, you could even take the database connection hit when the AGI server starts. The per-call cost would then be the cost to establish the socket connection to the AGI server from Asterisk, the cost to perform the SQL inserts over an established database connection, plus whatever other calculation or transformation you needed to do before doing the insert. That architecture would hold up under a fairly large load. Perl's Asterisk::FastAGI framework lets you specify the number of pre-forked children to launch, plus you can tell each child to exit (spawning a replacement for the pool) after processing a certain number of transactions. It's very similar to the Apache prefork model. -- j. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] IVR and MySQL
On 8/14/07, Fabio Ardeola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let say that the user entry during the call is a reference number of a house to rent. Would be possible to check if the reference number is a valid entry on the MySQL database and then base on its answer define the next menu item on the IVR menu. If you want to do something like that, you can either use the MYSQL function (with the attendant issues of connecting/reconnecting/etc.) or put all of the functionality in an AGI script. Since AGI can both receive information from and send commands to Asterisk, you can do pretty much anything you can code. There are programming frameworks for AGI for Perl, PHP, Java, and you could even do it in shellscript if you want. The communication channel between Asterisk and the script is stdin/stdout, so you're not restricted at all. Using AGI does make the the integrity of your system depend on an external component (i.e. if you're using FastAGI and the agi server goes down, your calls will just return immediately to the dialplan), but when you need to do something that doesn't fit intuitively into the Asterisk dialplan, I find it's the way to go. -- j. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
