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Date: 2008-11-23 19:09:19
DialFox Asterisk Phonebook
Issue of DialFox Phonebook Initial release 1.0
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A common shared phone book directory based on CMS/LAMP build for Asterisk PBX, store name and number into MySQL which will be used by each workstation browser, also by telephones with embedded browser feature.
All previous extensions will be migrate into the phonebook. FreePBX (trixbox) new extensions will be automatically added to the phone book. The directory are splits in two sections, one local and an global phone book.
It is still possible, click to dial numbers out from browser, it has been tested with Mozilla Firefox 2/3 and MS-IE 7, even Mac OS X (Safari) should also allow this.
In addition, the central directory can opened by snom phones, in which the XML-site of the Asterisk PBX is fetched. Incoming calls are displayed with name, number to name resolution will lookup from the local and global phone book. Calls from PSTN resolve by the landline provider (Swisscom).
Key features:
- Choose click to dial number in browser
- Caller name lookup
- Caller lookup by PSTN directory
- Call history inbound and outbound
- Active calls displaying at real time
- Manage call report entries
- User prefered desktop shortcut
- Local extensions directory
- Search names and numbers
- Zero deployment on clients
- Export/Import from .csv file
- Directory displayed on phone mini-browser (snom)
Current version: 1.0
Release date: 21/11/2008
Screenshots see here
Change log
Documentation
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To do/Wishlist
- Authentication management over LDAP Service
- Collaboration integration from Zarafa Groupware
- Active directory binding to MS OCS Server
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Install HowTo
The following applications are needed
- Apache Webserver 2.x +
- PHP-Standard-Module 4.2 +
- Asterisk 1.2 +
- MySQL 4.1 +
- FreePBX or trixbox (Optional)
Simply install estimate time less then 5 minutes, the code was written on Debian GNU/Linux, any other distribution shoud work well, like ubuntu or Fedora. surely trixbox too, it's build on CentOS (RedHat).
- Follow this install howto, will need to create an SQL database, download and copy the source to your apache doc-root
- Run in browser http://your_pbx/phonebook/book.php
- Go to settings and add your extension and prefix if it's appreciated
additionally you may create your shortcut with drag & drop the url to desktop - Optionally you got a browser popup at incoming calls, this guide help you to implement ADM
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