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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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 skill."FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves 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."FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Accessing channel variables


Within the Dialplan, variables are accessed with a special notation: ${variable_name}. Consider the following example:

<action application="log" data="INFO The value in sip_authorized is '${sip_authorized}'"/>

This action would print a log message to the FreeSWITCH command line as follows:

2009-12-09 14:32:48.904383 [INFO] mod_dptools.c:897 The value in sip_authorized is 'true'

Accessing the read-only values is much the same. Each of these values has a corresponding channel variable name. For example:

<action application="log" data="INFO The value of Unique-ID is '${uuid}'"/>

This will print a log line on the FreeSWITCH command line as follows:

2009-12-09 14:46:31.695458 [INFO] mod_dptools.c:897 The value of Unique-ID is '169ae42e-29f5-4e1c-9505-8ee6ef643081'

Tip

A complete list of info application variables and their corresponding channel variable names can be found at the following address: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables#Info_Application_Variable_Names_...