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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

You're reading from   FreeSWITCH 1.0.6 Follow this course and you‚Äôll be amazed at how feasible it is to get a sophisticated telephony system up and running by yourself. From basics to advanced features, it takes you step-by-step through the powerful capabilities of FreeSWITCH. CH

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199966
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Architecture of FreeSWITCH FREE CHAPTER 2. Building and Installation 3. Test Driving the Default Configuration 4. SIP and the User Directory 5. Understanding the XML Dialplan 6. Using the Built-in XML IVR Engine 7. Building IVR Applications with Lua 8. Advanced Dialplan Concepts 9. Controlling FreeSWITCH Externally 10. Advanced Features and Further Reading The FreeSWITCH Online Community The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

Creating a new extension


Let's create a brand new extension. Start by opening the following XML file we created in Chapter 4, The User Directory: conf/dialplan/default/01_Custom.xml. This file will contain the custom extensions that we create from now on.

Tip

Always begin your custom Dialplan filenames with a digit sequence. The reason for this is that the XML parser reads the XML files in ASCII order. The last file in conf/dialplan/default/ that we want parsed is 99999_enum.xml. This file contains the ENUM extension which is used as a "last resort" if the dialed number does not match any other extensions. See http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_enum for more information.

A Dialplan XML file can contain one or more extension definitions. The only restriction is that the file should begin and end with the XML tags <include> and </include> respectively.

Our new extension will be simple, but it will also demonstrate the power and flexibility of the FreeSWITCH Dialplan. The extension...

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