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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By : Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By: Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. This book introduces FreeSWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system. This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of FreeSWITCH. We then move on to the fundamentals and the new features added in version 1.6, showing you how to set up a basic system so you can make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality. Once you have a basic system in place, we’ll show you how to add more and more functionalities to it. You’ll learn to deploy the features on the system using unique techniques and tips to make it work better. Also, there are changes in the security-related components, which will affect the content in the book, so we will make that intact with the latest version. There are new support libraries introduced, such as SQLite, OpenSS, and more, which will make FreeSWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

HTTPAPI libraries for PHP and Python


As you looked at the examples earlier in the chapter, you may have thought that while there might be a lot of power in this httapi thing, you really don't want to learn another XML format to control FreeSWITCH. Also, manually printing all of that XML could be a huge hassle. That's why the httapi XML was written to be easy to implement with a helper library in the language of your choice.

A couple of such libraries exist, for PHP and for Python. Both libraries were developed by Raymond Chandler, and you can find them in the freeswitch-contrib GIT repository, under the directory intralanman. To download the libraries and the examples (and a whole lot of other good stuff):

cd /usr/srcgit clone https://freeswitch.org/stash/scm/fs/freeswitch-contrib.gitcd freeswitch-contrib/intralanman

There you'll find a PHP and a Python directory. Both PHP and Python libraries are composed by one only file (phttapi.php and httapy.py), for ease of use.