Hi Drew. I've tried running the script on my server and it doesn't return anything just a blank page. Could there something on my php configuration file that i migh tto adjust for the script to run properly.
And one more thing. I need to convert a text/srting to CIP and don't have a clue where to start. can you please help with that also.

Cheers Danny(RSA)

Hi Drew. I've tried running the script on my server and it doesn't return anything just a blank page. Could there something on my php configuration file that i migh tto adjust for the script to run properly.
And one more thing. I need to convert a text/srting to CIP and don't have a clue where to start. can you please help with that also.

Cheers Danny(RSA)

I couldn't find any really good Cisco XML parsers that properly strip HTML and make the RSS feeds viewable. I created the following in ASP (also runs on IIS 5.1 if you're using XP like we are for your services server). You may have to customize for your needs/feeds/environment, but here it is. I'm not an ASP programmer, so if you can improve this - PLEASE DO!

This script requires the HTML strip component downloadable here: http://www.example-code.com/asp/asp_strip_html.asp

Script 1 - This one loads REUTERS news:

<%

response.write "<CiscoIPPhoneText>"

' Simply change the lines below to reflect your feed.

 const inputRSSFile = "http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews" 
 response.write "<Title>" & "Reuters Headlines" & "</Title>"

' That's it!

Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("msxml2.serverxmlhttp")
set cks = Server.CreateObject("CkString.CkString")

xmlhttp.Open "GET", inputRSSFile, false
xmlhttp.Send
set objXMLDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
objXMLDoc.async = false
objXMLDoc.loadxml(xmlhttp.ResponseText)
counter = 1
 

 response.write "<Text>"

for each ParentNode in objXMLDoc.documentElement.childNodes
   for each ChildN in ParentNode.ChildNodes

      if childN.nodeName= "item" then
         counter = counter + 1
         for each tmpNode in childN.ChildNodes

        
             if tmpNode.nodeName = "title" then
                 
                 marqueeString= marqueeString & tmpNode.text & ""
                 response.write "" & tmpNode.text & vbCrLf
                 response.write "---------------------------------"
         end if

             if tmpNode.nodeName = "description" then
                 marqueeString= marqueeString & tmpNode.text & ""
                 cks.Str = tmpNode.text
                 cks.StripHtml
                 response.write "" & cks.Str & "" & vbCrLf
                 response.write "---------------------------------"
         end if


  '           if tmpNode.nodeName = "pubDate" then
  '              marqueeString= marqueeString & "" & tmpNode.text & "" &"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"
  '           response.write "" & tmpNode.text & ""
  '           end if

          next
       if counter > 10 then exit for
      end if
    

   next

next

response.write "</Text>"
response.write "</CiscoIPPhoneText>"

%>

This one requests a stock quote from NASDAQ from a Cisco INPUT form and parses it for phone display (quite a hack):

<%

response.write "<CiscoIPPhoneText>"

' Simply change the lines below to reflect your feed.

 inputRSSFile = "http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NasdaqRSS.aspx?data=quotes&symbol=" & Request.Querystring("symbol")
 response.write "<Title>" & "Stock Quote" & "</Title>"

' That's it!

Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("msxml2.serverxmlhttp")
set cks = Server.CreateObject("CkString.CkString")

xmlhttp.Open "GET", inputRSSFile, false
xmlhttp.Send
set objXMLDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
objXMLDoc.async = false
objXMLDoc.loadxml(xmlhttp.ResponseText)

 

 response.write "<Text>Quote for Symbol:" 

for each ParentNode in objXMLDoc.documentElement.childNodes
   for each ChildN in ParentNode.ChildNodes

      if childN.nodeName= "item" then
         for each tmpNode in childN.ChildNodes


             if tmpNode.nodeName = "description" then
                 marqueeString= marqueeString & tmpNode.text & ""
                 cks.Str = tmpNode.text
                 cks.StripHtml
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, vbCrLf, "")
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "&nbsp;", "")                  
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, " ", " ")     
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "View: Summary Quote | News", "")     
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, " ", "")     
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, " ", "")     
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "                  ", "")     
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, vbLf, "")  
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "Last", vbCrLf & "Last") 
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "Change", vbCrLf & "Change") 
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "% Change", vbCrLf & "% Change") 
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "Volume", vbCrLf & "Volume") 
                 cks.Str = replace(cks.Str, "As of", vbCrLf & "Quote as of") 

                 response.write "" & cks.Str & vbCrLf

         end if


  '           if tmpNode.nodeName = "pubDate" then
  '              marqueeString= marqueeString & "" & tmpNode.text & "" &"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"
  '           response.write "" & tmpNode.text & ""
  '           end if

          next
      end if


   next

next

response.write "</Text>"
response.write "</CiscoIPPhoneText>"

%>

This one collects input and displays the weather based on INPUT from the user:

<%

response.write "<CiscoIPPhoneText>"

' Simply change the lines below to reflect your feed.

 inputRSSFile = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=" & Request.Querystring("zip")
 response.write "<Title>" & "Current Weather" & "</Title>"

' That's it!

Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("msxml2.serverxmlhttp")
set cks = Server.CreateObject("CkString.CkString")

xmlhttp.Open "GET", inputRSSFile, false
xmlhttp.Send
set objXMLDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
objXMLDoc.async = false
objXMLDoc.loadxml(xmlhttp.ResponseText)

 

 response.write "<Text>"

for each ParentNode in objXMLDoc.documentElement.childNodes
   for each ChildN in ParentNode.ChildNodes

      if childN.nodeName= "item" then
         for each tmpNode in childN.ChildNodes

        
             if tmpNode.nodeName = "title" then
                 
response.write "---------------------------------"
                 marqueeString= marqueeString & tmpNode.text & ""
                 response.write "" & tmpNode.text & vbCrLf
                 response.write "---------------------------------"
         end if

             if tmpNode.nodeName = "description" then
                 marqueeString= marqueeString & tmpNode.text & "&nbsp;"
                 cks.Str = tmpNode.text
                 cks.StripHtml
                 response.write "" & cks.Str & "" & vbCrLf

         end if


  '           if tmpNode.nodeName = "pubDate" then
  '              marqueeString= marqueeString & "" & tmpNode.text & "" &"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"
  '           response.write "" & tmpNode.text & ""
  '           end if

          next
      end if


   next

next

response.write "</Text>"
response.write "</CiscoIPPhoneText>"

%>

After getting a batch of new Cisco 7941G units, I started searching for how to display images on the LCD for phone services. Surprisingly, the documentation from Cisco on the subject was piss poor; the best resource happened to be this page from voip-info.

I also found a gif2cip executable solution developed by Mark Palmer (http://search.cpan.org/~mrpalmer/Cisco-IPPhone-0.05) which was helpful, but I wanted to be able to dynamically create images on the fly rather than having to run them through the gif2cip converter first. Thus I created this PHP script which allows for GIF/JPG/PNG conversion to packed HEX which the Cisco phones read.

One minor issue occurs with transparent GIF/PNG images, as the imagecreatetruecolor PHP function midway through the script renders the pixels as black rather than the desired white. This can be solved, with a slight trade off in quality by replacing the imagecreatetruecolor function in the script with imagecreate.

Copy the following code and save as a .php file on a webserver which is accessible from your Cisco 79xx phone. Then, from either CallManager or by manually modifying the SEPMACADDRESS.cnf.xml file, have your <servicesURL> tag point at the .php file you created.

<?
//Image filename
$IMAGESOURCE = "http://ca.php.net/images/php.gif";

//Sets the max width and height for the image
$MAXWIDTH = 133;
$MAXHEIGHT = 65;

//Sets the display location on the phone
$LOCATIONX = -1;
$LOCATIONY = -1;

//Sets the decimal RGB ranges for binary conversion
$LOW = 100;
$MEDIUM = 150;
$HIGH = 200;

/*************** PROBABLY NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW HERE ***************/

//Checks to see if the image exists
if (strtolower(substr($IMAGESOURCE,0,7)) == "http://") {
$IMAGEHEADER = @get_headers($IMAGESOURCE);
if (!preg_match("|200|", $IMAGEHEADER0)) {
echo "ERROR:\n\nRemote Image Does Not Exist\n\n"; exit; }}
elseif (!file_exists($IMAGESOURCE)) {
echo "ERROR:\n\nImage Does Not Exist\n\n"; exit; }

//Creates a cached copy of the image based on the extension
if (strtolower(substr($IMAGESOURCE,-3,3)) == "gif") {
$IMAGECACHE = @imagecreatefromgif($IMAGESOURCE); }
elseif (strtolower(substr($IMAGESOURCE,-3,3)) == "jpg") {
$IMAGECACHE = @imagecreatefromjpeg($IMAGESOURCE); }
elseif (strtolower(substr($IMAGESOURCE,-3,3)) == "png") {
$IMAGECACHE = @imagecreatefrompng($IMAGESOURCE); }
else { echo "ERROR:\n\nImage Format Not Recognized\n\n"; exit; }

//Gets the width and height of the image
list($IMAGEWIDTH, $IMAGEHEIGHT) = getimagesize($IMAGESOURCE);

//Gets the width to height ratio of the image
$SOURCERATIO = $IMAGEWIDTH/$IMAGEHEIGHT;

//Checks to see if the image needs resizing
if ($IMAGEWIDTH <= $MAXWIDTH && $IMAGEHEIGHT <= $MAXHEIGHT) {
$RESIZEDWIDTH = $IMAGEWIDTH;
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = $IMAGEHEIGHT; }
elseif ($IMAGEWIDTH <= $MAXWIDTH && $IMAGEHEIGHT > $MAXHEIGHT) {
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = $MAXHEIGHT;
$RESIZEDWIDTH = ceil($MAXHEIGHT*$SOURCERATIO); }
elseif ($IMAGEWIDTH > $MAXWIDTH && $IMAGEHEIGHT <= $MAXHEIGHT) {
$RESIZEDWIDTH = $MAXWIDTH;
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = ceil($MAXWIDTH/$SOURCERATIO); }
elseif ($IMAGEWIDTH > $MAXWIDTH && $IMAGEHEIGHT > $MAXHEIGHT) {
$WIDTHDIFF = $IMAGEWIDTH-$MAXWIDTH;
$HEIGHTDIFF = $IMAGEHEIGHT-$MAXHEIGHT;
if ($WIDTHDIFF < $HEIGHTDIFF) {
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = $MAXHEIGHT;
$RESIZEDWITH = ceil($MAXHEIGHT*$SOURCERATIO); }
elseif ($WIDTHDIFF > $HEIGHTDIFF) {
$RESIZEDWIDTH = $MAXWIDTH;
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = ceil($MAXWIDTH/$SOURCERATIO); }
elseif ($WIDTHDIFF == $HEIGHTDIFF) {
$RESIZEDWIDTH = $MAXWIDTH;
$RESIZEDHEIGHT = $MAXHEIGHT; }}

//Create new resized image
$RESIZEDIMAGE = imagecreatetruecolor($RESIZEDWIDTH, $RESIZEDHEIGHT);
imagecopyresampled($RESIZEDIMAGE, $IMAGECACHE, 0, 0, 0, 0, $RESIZEDWIDTH, $RESIZEDHEIGHT, $IMAGEWIDTH, $IMAGEHEIGHT);

//Sets an empty variable for future use
$BINARYFULL = "";

//Sets header information to XML with no caching
header("Content-type: text/xml");
header("Connection: close");
header("Expires: -1");

//Outputs the initial Cisco XML tags
echo "<CiscoIPPhoneImage>";
echo "<LocationX>$LOCATIONX</LocationX>";
echo "<LocationY>$LOCATIONY</LocationY>";
echo "<Width>$RESIZEDWIDTH</Width>";
echo "<Height>$RESIZEDHEIGHT</Height>";
echo "<Depth>2</Depth>";
echo "<Data>";

//Gets the red RGB value for each pixel in the image
for ($Y=0;$Y<$RESIZEDHEIGHT;$Y++) {
for ($X=0;$X<$RESIZEDWIDTH;$X++) {
$COLORINDEX = imagecolorat($RESIZEDIMAGE,$X,$Y);
$RGBDEC = imagecolorsforindex($RESIZEDIMAGE,$COLORINDEX);
$RED = $RGBDECred>'red';

//Converts each pixel from red RGB value to 2-bit binary
if ($RED < $LOW) { $TWOBIT = "11"; }
elseif ($RED >= $LOW && $RED < $MEDIUM) { $TWOBIT = "10"; }
elseif ($RED >= $MEDIUM && $RED < $HIGH) { $TWOBIT = "01"; }
elseif ($RED >= $HIGH) { $TWOBIT = "00"; }

//Sets the 2-bit binary string for each pixel
$BINARYFULL .= $TWOBIT; }}

//Parses the string and reorders the binary pairs
$i = 0;
while ($i <= strlen($BINARYFULL)) {
$EIGHTBIT = substr($BINARYFULL,$i,8);
$TWOBIT1 = substr($EIGHTBIT,6,2);
$TWOBIT2 = substr($EIGHTBIT,4,2);
$TWOBIT3 = substr($EIGHTBIT,2,2);
$TWOBIT4 = substr($EIGHTBIT,0,2);
$EIGHTBITFLIP = $TWOBIT1 . $TWOBIT2 . $TWOBIT3 . $TWOBIT4;

//Converts the reordered binary byte to decimal and then to hexidecmal
$OUTPUT = dechex(bindec($EIGHTBITFLIP));

//Pads single value binary bits and outputs the result
if (strlen($OUTPUT)==1) { echo "0" . $OUTPUT; }
else { echo $OUTPUT; }
$i = $i+8; }

//Outputs the closing Cisco XML tags
echo "</Data>";
echo "<Title>Test</Title>";
echo "<Prompt>Test</Prompt>";
echo "</CiscoIPPhoneImage>";

//Frees any memory associated with cached images
imagedestroy($IMAGECACHE);
imagedestroy($RESIZEDIMAGE);
?>

Found this project on SourceForge. It's a bit old and needs PHP+MySQL, but works fine with 79x0 and 79x1. Enables Web based set up of "Containers", "Contact Holders", and Contacts with several phone numbers (and SIP URIs). Useful for situations where there is no local LDAP directory.

The graphical menus are "bitmapped" (literally, using text) and don't display well on 79x1. I only use the directory features (ignoring the memo and RSS), so I set the directoryURL to http://servername/PhoneUI/menuItems.php rather than http://servername/PhoneUI/index.php.

Project is: http://web.csma.biz/apps/xml_xmldir.php

if I serve these php / xml files with apache2 on my debian sarge server the phone just displays the files as text

I had to insert an additional header line

header("Cache-Control: private");

Now it works

I am not sure why ... hope it will help

Since I'm a new to this stuff (and I'll add this is my first XML-output script EVER) I struggled a bit with the "http refresh header" thing; My company directory is over 100 entries, so doing "page navigation" stumped me - well, for about 10 mins. So to help out other newbs, here's the script I wrote (and works on my 7960/SIP v7.4) --> dir.php.

I noticed that there was a small problem with the php mysql directory script. I was getting extra characters before and after the number on my 7940 phone. I have posted an updated script that works a little better. The 9 infront of the telephone number is my dialout number. You can ignore if you like, I won't loose sleep over it.

And Remember, printf is your friend!!

<?
header("Content-type: text/xml");
header("Connection: close");
header("Expires: -1");
echo "<" . "?xml version=\"1.0\" ?".">\n";

?>
<CiscoIPPhoneDirectory>
   <Title>IP Telephony Directory</Title> 
   <Prompt>1340Media Phone List</Prompt>                     
<?

$database = 'contacts';

$db_server = 'my server';
$db_user = 'my user';
$db_pass = 'my password';

$link = mysql_connect($db_server, $db_user, $db_pass);

if (!$link) {
       die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $link);

if (!$db_selected) {
       die('Can\'t use database $database : ' . mysql_error());
}



$result = mysql_db_query ($database, "select * from phonelists ORDER BY `name`");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) {

   printf("\t\t<DirectoryEntry>\n");
   printf("\t\t\t<Name>%s</Name>\n",$row"name");
   printf("\t\t\t<Telephone>9%s</Telephone>\n",$row"phone");
   printf("\t\t</DirectoryEntry>\n");

}

mysql_free_result ($result);

mysql_close($link);

?>
</CiscoIPPhoneDirectory>

http://cvs.largeone.net/index.cgi/*checkout*/asterisk/scripts/status.cgi doesn't not work, unable to reach the webmaster by mail (:sad:)

After trying to apply an Asterisk Directory PHP script on my system, php didn't like the following expression on line 13.
if (isset($vcallerid>'callerid'))

After a bit of research, I figured out that wiki eats up a square bracket (sorry, I am a newbie here). I am offering below a modified version, which I have just verified to work on my Cisco 79X0's with SIP 7.3 firmware.
Enjoy. Serge Vecher

kb_directory.php
/* PHP Script for Creating XML Directory
   for Cisco 79X0 Phones at KB Studio
   implemented by SAV, last update 1/5/04
   based on howto at
   www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Cisco+79XX+XML+Services

• /

header("Content-type: text/xml");
header("Connection: close");
header("Expires: -1");

// location of asterisk config files
$location = "/etc/asterisk/";
$dirname = "KB Studio Directory";

// parse sip.conf
$sip_array = parse_ini_file($location."sip.conf", true);
while ($v = current($sip_array))
{ if (isset($v['callerid']]))
 { $directory[] = "\n".$v['callerid']]."\n". "".key($sip_array)."\n\n"; }
 next($sip_array);
}

echo "\n";
echo "".$dirname."\n";
foreach ($directory as $v)
{ print_r($v); }
echo "select entry\n";
echo "\n";
?>