On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Mark Hamilton wrote: > Hi, > > I have a website where customers enter their phone numbers to be called. I'd > like them to have to put in information and 'schedule' a call. > > > 1) Call Immediately > > 2) Call in the next _ minutes > > 3) Call me tomorrow, same time. > > So, Asterisk will pull two variables from this php websites, $phonenumber > and $timetocall. $timetocall will need to be calculated as to exactly what > time Asterisk will need to call. > > > > Then, Asterisk calls it (by way of call files? Either putting the call file > in at the time it needs to be called, or I don't know what else) and then if > the call is has a human on it, plays a message saying "We're now > transferring you to an agent. Please wait." And transfer that call to a > queue. > > > How can I do this? Is there something prebuilt like this?
Reading the replies so-far... Cron jobs, databases, shell scripts... Ye Gods... Try reading the manual (or at least the wiki) http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out Scroll down to the bit headed: How to schedule a Call in the Future Assuming you already have some PHP to write the call-file and move it into place, inserting a "touch" call after writing the file and moving it into place ought to be trivial... http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.touch.php Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
