I didn't start with mozdial right away and I thought I'd share what I
did first to stir some other click-to-dial ideas.
I was updating the company employee contact list, a web page in our
Twiki-based wiki and I thought it would be nice to click to dial phone
numbers on the wiki.
I had already created a PHP dialer page where you could enter a phone
number in a form to dial. It wasn't really used that much since it
wasn't really handy but I thought I could link to it from the wiki page
and pass the phone number along. As I started typing the first URL I
realized that it would be too hard to maintain and I'd have to change
too many pages in the wiki (we have customer information there as well)
Then it dawned on me to change the wiki to automatically display the
links for text that looks like a phone number.
I created the DialerPlugin.pm for Twiki to display all phone numbers as
links to my PHP program that would dial. I haven't released it because
it requires that second application and I haven't packaged it up neatly.
I'm not sure I will either.
After that plugin it dawned on me that it would be nice to click to dial
numbers on other web pages and I thought "if I could do that with Twiki,
maybe I could do it with Firefox."
But if someone is interested there are other Wikis and CMSes that could
use plugins for Asterisk dialing.
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