Originate / Bridge

[Brian Doyle]

I have a IVR script written which "Originates" a call which is then supposed to bridge the originated call to the current call, but I am not sure of the variable name for the "current channel".  Please advise.

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[Brian Doyle]

Well I was able to figure the variable issue, I ended up using $agi->get_variable('CHANNEL');.  But now I receive the following: "bridge_exec: Bridge failed because channel Array does not exists or we cannot get its lock"  Any guidance is appreciated….

[Matthew Asham]

get_variable will return an array - look at the 'data' element for the value.  Alternatively pass TRUE as get_variable's second parameter to only receive the data value.

    /**
    * Fetch the value of a variable.
    *
    * Does not work with global variables. Does not work with some variables that are generated by modules.
    *
    * @link http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-get+variable
    * @link http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables
    * @param string $variable name
    * @param boolean $getvalue return the value only
    * @return array, see evaluate for return information. ['result'] is 0 if variable hasn't been set, 1 if it has. ['data'] holds the value. returns value if $getvalue is TRUE
    */