Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-25 Thread Douglas Garstang
I don't think anyone did, and I was hoping someone would. :) - Original Message From: Steve Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:57:48 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-24 Thread Steve Murphy
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 09:54 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do it in AGI/FastAGI. What about VxML (about which I know

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Totaro
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do it in AGI/FastAGI. What about VxML

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Douglas Garstang
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:02:37 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Totaro
: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Edwards
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do it in AGI/FastAGI. What about

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Douglas Garstang
: Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk. Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Douglas Garstang
I would build it this way: 1) Design the dialplan logically so it is understandable and maintainable. 2) Code up the AGIs in whatever language you are comfortable. I would use C, but that's what I'm most comfortable with. 3) Confirm everything works like you think it should. 4) Measure to

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Edwards
I would build it this way: 1) Design the dialplan logically so it is understandable and maintainable. 2) Code up the AGIs in whatever language you are comfortable. I would use C, but that's what I'm most comfortable with. 3) Confirm everything works like you think it should. 4) Measure

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Alex Balashov
Douglas Garstang wrote: Can FastAGI call FastAGI? The application needs to contact another FastAGI server written in Java to lookup various billing information. AGI can call any dialplan application, including another call to AGI() (with a URL that ends up going to FastAGI). -- Alex

Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

2008-06-23 Thread Alex Balashov
Douglas Garstang wrote: Right, except now I have to go write a multi-threaded, redundant FastAGI server in python (euww, hate java). That replaces the effort of doing it in the dial-plan with the effort required for a more complex application + the effort required to make it redundant.