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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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. It is always exciting to design and build your own telephony system to suit your needs, but the task is time consuming and involves a lot of technical skills.This book comes to your rescue, helping you to set up a telephony system fast and easily using FreeSWITCH. It will take you from being a novice to creating a fully-functional telephony system of your own. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.The book begins by introducing the architecture and working of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature-packed PBX. You will learn about maintaining a user directory, XML dial plan and advanced dial plan concepts, call routing, and the extremely powerful Event Socket. You will finally learn about the online community and history of FreeSWITCH.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

Event-based applications



Several applications exist that take advantage of the Event Socket system. The most commonly used application is the fs_cli. We will also go over a demo PHP and Perl script to get you familiar with utilizing the event system.

FreeSWITCH Console application

Most people do not realize it, but if they have used the FreeSWITCH Console application (fs_cli), then they have already used the FreeSWITCH event socket subsystem. fs_cli is a C application that connects to the FreeSWITCH event socket provided by mod_event_socket, as previously discussed. It consumes all system events, colorizes them and provides an interface for sending commands back in the form of event messages. The entire FreeSWITCH console has been completely recreated by this application. (You can view the source code for fs_cli in libs/esl/fs_cli.c under the FreeSWITCH source directory.)

PHP Socket connections

The FreePBX v3 project introduced a class that allows for connecting to the FreeSWITCH event socket...