Hi, Actually, they haven't purchased the PBX system yet. I have the position to choose which PBX system i want to use since my concern is compatibility on Unix-based environment. I've looked at Asterisk, but was lost. Does Asterisk support PSTN calls? Is the procedure to connect PBX machine to Asterisk's installed PC?
Anyway, PBX will be used to manage calls in a hotel environment. Any particular On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Chauncey Thorn wrote: > > Does the PBX have a web frontend? if so you could scrape that and > store to DB > > Can you telnet to the device? http://www.dali.net.nz/Telnet.class.php.txt > > If you can communicate with the device you could create a RESTFul type > webservice and let cakephp interact with that... > > CT > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Gonzalo Servat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Reza Muhammad >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I was just assigned to a project building a hotel management system, >>> and I would like to use CakePHP. Most of the requirements are pretty >>> standards, but there is one thing I'm not familiar with. >>> >>> I am supposed to be able to track calls from each rooms that is >>> using >>> PSTN through PBX. There will be no VoIP calls. I have got no clue >>> whether it is doable or not. >>> >>> My questions are: >>> 1. Can data packets from calls be captured using PHP? >>> 2. Or do I have to use another software for the PBX to save data to >>> the database (hopefully to MySQL, or other open source RDBMS >>> software), then collect the data from that server's database? >>> >>> Does anyone have some experience on this problem? Do you mind to >>> share >>> your thoughts on this? Is there such software to do #2? >> >> What are they using as a PBX? I would suggest looking into whether >> you can >> hook up to it somehow and fetch data from it (maybe via serial port >> or >> something ... even better if it has a way to fetch data over TCP/ >> IP). If it >> uses some sort of RDBMS that Linux can talk to, then great. Failing >> that I >> don't see how you'll be able to achieve point 1. >> >> Another option, if there is no way to get call accounting data from >> the PBX, >> is to look into replacing the PBX with something like FreeSWITCH or >> Asterisk. I'm sure it's not easy to convince them to replace an >> expensive >> PBX they just purchased over Asterisk but, since I don't know the >> situation, >> I'm throwing the idea out there. >> >> Good luck. >> >> - Gonzalo >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
