Building a caller ID routing plugin
This simple caller ID plugin will let your user assign caller IDs to incoming phone numbers.
We're going to limit this to call flows, so that you can have the caller ID handled differently for each option in a call flow.
For example, if you set up extensions, you could say, if the extension is 1 and the call is coming from 1234567890, forward the call to voice mail; however, if the extension is 2 and the call is coming from 1234567890, call a sales person.
Getting ready
The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter10/Recipe5
folder in the source code for this book.
How to do it…
Now let's set up a caller ID system. This system will let us define a set of actions based on the caller's phone number. So, for example, you could set it so that when your Mom calls, the system sends her directly to voice mail. Use the following steps to do so:
In the
plugins
folder, create a folder and name itcallerid
.Within the
callerid
folder, create another...