FreePBX Turns Five!

Astricon 2009By

Philippe LindheimerFreePBX.org / Bandwidth.com

Project Introduction / BackgroundFreePBX Call Flows

Linking modules to customize solutions

Examples of Custom/Enterprise Solutions

FreePBX 3.0

Summary / Questions

FreePBX Turns Five

Project Overview

Estimated: 5,000,000 Downloads 500,000 Installed Base

Proven Stability with Mature Release History 10/14/2004 – 1.1 03/17/2006 – 2.0 05/16/2006 – 2.1 01/05/2007 – 2.2 08/25/2007 – 2.3 02/10/2008 – 2.4 09/19/2008 – 2.5

Astricon-09 – 2.6

08/04/2009 – 3.0DEV1 Astricon-09 – 3.0DEV2

Many others (some have come and gone) Adminparadise

Asterisk Suite

Centris

CentPBX

Converged Interaction

EasyVoxBox

ESCAUX net. PBX

Generic User Management System

kasterx

Miruna Asterisk System

Pound Team PBX

ST-PBX Live

VoizEdge

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Who's Using FreePBX?Version 1.5

What Does FreePBX Bring?LAMP

Linux

Apache

MySQL

PHP, (Perl, Python)

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Asterisk

Linking Modules Together

extension, vmor featurecode

extension, vmor featurecode

From Previous Module

Destination Modules

Multi-Destination Modules(e.g. IVR, Time-Conditions, Day/Night Control)

From Previous Module

Destination Module(or extension, vm, featurecode)

Simple Module(e.g. Announcement)

extension, vmor featurecode

Destination Module(or extension, vm, featurecode)

From Previous Module

Common Module(e.g. Ring Group, Queues,

Follow-Me)

extensions

Time Condition8-5 M-F

extensions

DIDCompany DID

8004522233

Day/NightMode Control

IVR1-Sales2-Support3-Directions

Sales Msg Support Msg

SalesRinggroup

SupportQueue

After Hr Msg

John’s Voicemail

Inbound Call Flow

Enterprise IVRs

Extension/User+Devices Config

Feature Code Administration

Outbound Routes

Trunks

Inbound Routes

Zap Channel DIDs

Announcements

CallerID Lookup Sources

Day/Night Control

Follow Me

IVR

Queues

Ring Groups

Time Conditions

Callback

Conferences

DISA

Languages

Misc Applications

Msic Destinations

Music on Hold Administration

PIN Sets

Paging and Intercom

Parking Lot

System Recordings

Dictation

FreePBX System Status

Module Admin

Asterisk Log Files

Online Support

Asterisk API

Asterisk CLI

Asterisk Info

Backup & Restore

Custom Destinations

Custom Extensions

Java SSH

PHP Info

PHP AGI Config

Print Extensions

Phonebook

Phonebook Directory

Speeddial Functions

Gabcast

Print Extensions

Call Forward (CF, CFB, CFU)

Call Waiting

Do-Not-Disturb

Info Services

Voicemail

VoiceMail Blasting

More…

Abundance of Features

Time Clock SolutionsEmergency Management SolutionsAutomated Outbound MessagingSpeech (Magic Button – Schmooze)Online Phone Payment

Customizing FreePBX

Reinventing ourselves with 3.0Three projects come togetherLanguage & FrameworkDesign GoalsScreenshots

FreePBX 3.0

TCAPI MVC, Web2.0, Engine Independent

Phonebooth hosted platform Phones Made Simple

FreePBX Defacto Asterisk Management Interface Modular Design

Three Great Projects in One

Modular approach to allow customization

Easily extendable UI

DRY (write reusable code once) / widgets

Easily skinnable / branding

Web2.0 AJAX

Links easily to outside programs and widgets (libraries, APIs, etc.)

Support Multiple Softswitches

Design Goals

PHP Widely accepted, FreePBX 2.x developer base

Kohana (for View/Controller) Lightweight, flexible

Doctrine (for ORM) Extremely powerful

TCAPI (for Telephony) Switch-agnostic design

jQuery (for Javascript goodness) Best-known Javascript library

Language & Framework Selection

JavaScript(AJAX)Helpers

Menu & Frame Layout(a.k.a. skin)

Module Views(may load within frames)

TelephonyUI

Helpers

ErrorHandling

Core Edit/Save/LoadActions

DataValidation

Database Abstraction & Event Handlers(Connect / Save / Load)

Individual table/feature modules(Each feature acts as a database “table”)

DB storage engine Real-time APIs

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Controllers (FreePBX Application)

Web Browser

ExternalData

(LDAP,SQL, etc.)

TelephonySwitchConfig

XML,SOAP,

etc.

API

Plugins

Subviews

FreePBX 2.x continues strong

FreePBX 3.x Under Rapid Development Lots of new talent

Present in many Enterprise and Government accounts

Bandwidth.com committed to FreePBX continued success

Summary