Item1861: Develop and at some future point release the ClickToCallPlugin

This plugin allows to click on a phone number and then triggers a call via Asterisk. First your own phone will ring and if that's taken the call to the real destination will be started otherwise a select box shows up for choosing a different number to start the call from.

-- IngoKappler - 29 Jul 2009

can I be the first to say awesome that's a killer app that will finally get me to installing asterisk.

-- SvenDowideit - 29 Jul 2009

Thanks, nice to hear. Right now it is not ready for release but it looks like this:

And the related "wiki code" where this picture comes from is:

| *WikiName<sup>[[%SYSTEMWEB%.WikiName][Help]]</sup>* | *Extension* | *Fixed* | *Mobile* |
| %STARTSECTION{name="MyClickToCall" type="section"}%%TOPIC% | %CLICKTOCALL{" %FORMFIELD{"WorkPhoneExtension" default="Please fill in the <nop>WorkPhoneExtension at your hometopic!" topic="%TOPIC%" format="$value"}% "}% | %CLICKTOCALL{" %FORMFIELD{"WorkPhone" default="Please fill in the <nop>WorkPhone at your hometopic!" topic="%TOPIC%" format="$value"}% "}% | %CLICKTOCALL{" %FORMFIELD{"WorkPhoneMobile" default="Please fill in the <nop>WorkPhoneMobile at your hometopic!" topic="%TOPIC%" format="$value"}% "}%%ENDSECTION{name="MyClickToCall" type="section"}% |

So far all the credits for the plugin code belong to a collegue of mine!

-- IngoKappler - 29 Jul 2009

It would be great if it could be extended to use something like that: http://www.ipcom.at/index.php?id=561

What I mean is that opening a SIP session from a third party isn't really something hard to do, as it's part of the protocol (if you have a proxy, afaik).

Anyway, let's first see how it's done with Asterisk, and then build on it

-- OlivierRaginel - 29 Jul 2009

Too bad this never got finished. Meanwhile I am using a different solution to trigger a call from a web app while clicking on a sip:12345 url. Requires to register sip: as an url protocol and assign a script to it. This step is different per operating system and desktop environment. The browser then calls the xdg-sip script:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $sipPrg = "/usr/bin/linphone";
my $defaultDomain = "your-sip-account-domain";
my $url = $ARGV[0];

use constant DEBUG => 0;

print STDERR "xdg-sip: url=$url\n" if DEBUG;

if ($url =~ /^sip:([^@]+)(?:@(.*))?$/) {
  my $id = $1;
  my $domain = $2 || $defaultDomain;
  $url = 'sip:'.$id.'@'.$domain;
}

print STDERR "xdg-sip: calling $url\n" if DEBUG;

system($sipPrg, "-c", $url);

... which basically triggers a softphone to dial.

-- MichaelDaum - 06 Jun 2013

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