Simple web interface for managing CID names:

Make sure to edit /etc/sudoers accordingly, for example using 'visudo' add an entry like:
apache ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx database *

== cid-form.php ==

<html>
<head>
<title>Asterisk Caller ID form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Asterisk phone book</h1>

<form name="EntryForm" action="cid-store.php" method=POST>

<table cellpadding=2>
<tr>
<td>Phone number:</td>
<td><input name="PhoneNumber" size=30></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name:</td>
<td><input name="PhoneName" size=30></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><div align=right>
<input type=submit value="Save">
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>

</form>
</body>
</html>

== cid-store.php ==

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Storing Asterisk CID data</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>Asterisk phone book</h1>
<?php
set_time_limit(5);
if ($PhoneNumber <> "" && $PhoneName <> "") {
       // Note: this PHP script runs as user "apache"!
       // system("whoami > /tmp/info");
       system("sudo /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx " . escapeshellarg("database put cidname $PhoneNumber \"$PhoneName\"") . " &> /tmp/error");
       print "Successfully stored <b>$PhoneNumber</b> as <b>$PhoneName</b>.";
} else {
       print "Please enter both phone number and name!";
}
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

== cid-list.php ==

</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>Asterisk phone book</h1>
<?php
set_time_limit(5);
system("sudo /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx \"database show cidname\" > /tmp/asterisk_cid-list.txt");

$fd=fopen("/tmp/asterisk_cid-list.txt","r");
while ($line=fgets($fd,1000))
{
$alltext.=$line;
}
fclose ($fd);
print str_replace("\n", "<br>", $alltext);

?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Following the examples above you'll not have much trouble to add a DELETE function as well.
Contributed by Philipp von Klitzing

Created by oej, Last modification by gsupp on Wed 10 of Aug, 2005 [07:36 UTC]

Good example, but..

by Martin Kasztantowicz on Sunday 18 of June, 2006 [12:35:59 UTC]

there is still lots of work needed to make this ready for a production environment. In fact, I was inspired by this script and ended up in creating a php phonebook application that looks appealing and is usable by end users: :-)
http://voip-manager.net/asterisk-phonebook.php

Asterisk@Home users

by dave1216 on Saturday 04 of February, 2006 [10:14:05 UTC]

If your using Asterisk@Home, you need to use:
asterisk ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx database *

This is because httpd is ran from asterisk & not the user apache.

major security risk

by gsupp on Wednesday 10 of August, 2005 [07:35:06 UTC]

Please bear in mind adding the line to /etc/sudoers the author suggests is a major security risk. You're giving anyone with the ability to run a php script full access to your Asterisk server. I would recommend using this line instead, which restricts access to database functions only:

apache ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx database *

Need some help with this

by mantic on Wednesday 09 of February, 2005 [19:46:17 UTC]

I keep getting a parse error. any step by step would be appreciated fo rthis newbie.

tia
jp

POST variables need to get fetched

by felisa on Wednesday 24 of November, 2004 [03:31:26 UTC]

I couldn't get this to work without the following before the If statement in cid-store.php:

$PhoneNumber = $_POSTPhoneNumber>'PhoneNumber';
$PhoneName = $_POSTPhoneName>'PhoneName';

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