BACKGROUND command

[Mark Scheel]

Can the background command be used with agi?

I tried:

$agi->agi_exec("BACKGROUND demo-instruct #") and it just skips the command during execution.

In contrast this works fine:

$agi->agi_exec("BACKGROUND demo-instruct #")

If anyone has a code snippet including the get_dtmf or some command that captures the users input let me know.

As far as I can tell this command is only available through mods to extensions.conf (not agi), but there appear to be perl agi modules that support background.

I am not using the latest 2.0 code for phpagi.

[Mark Scheel]

Sorry typo'd the second (working) command instead of BACKGROUND it should say STREAM FILE.

[Mark Scheel]

I figured it out.  Turns out that you don't need background at all.

This page got me started:

http://asterisk.drunkcoder.com/agi.cgi

It states that you can send a string of digits that can interrupt the file being streamed when using STREAM FILE.

I modified my phpagi version's agi_text2wav function to send this parameter when it calls STREAM to play the wav file and then changed it to return a value (chr($res[result])) and it works.

The talking is interrupted and I know what the user pressed. 

Just out of curiosity could I have saved my self some time and used the 2.0 phpagi version in CVS?
Does it have this feature?

Thanks Matthew and crew for phpagi, its a nice framework for writing agi scripts in php.