Asterisk is a powerful Open Source tool that can be used to turn a Linux box into a full-blown PABX, opening great potential for the development of all sorts of telephony applications.
This class provides means to access and control aspects of operation of Asterisk from PHP, thus increasing further the potential of the applications that can take advantage of the combination of the Web with telephony.
Asterisk is a software package that can act as a telephone central (PABX).
This class provides means to establish a network connection to Asterisk daemon, execute commands to access and control Asterisk and retrieve the response to the commands.
The class can also register to be notified about events of interest within Asterisk so the applications can act upon such events.