Hi Mehroz, all,

Having used FusionPBX, I can tell you it's not closed source in any place. It's just a load of PHP code and none of it is obfuscated or encrypted.

It actually contains an XML editor component so you can add and edit XML dialplans, configurations, in fact anything under your /etc/freeswitch directory without limits. Just make sure they don't clash with the database-generated ones (ie the ones you create in the simple "dialplan GUI", start with v_ as I remember) and you will be fine.

It's very flexible IMHO, but if you want to stop users getting at those parts they don't need, either put them in the appropriate readymade access group, create your own, or indeed change the code. Personally if I was using it now, I'd create the more "icky" stuff in the XML editor and then let the simple stuff (ie extensions, callgroups, etc) for the GUI.

It was my intro to FreeSWITCH and actually a good one, as it doesn't hide too much, teaches you the logic of dialplans, and better than that you can see the XML result of what you did in the "ID10T" part of it just by moving to a different tab.

It's also well structured enough that if something goes wrong and you know anything (even basic) about programming you can figure out where it happened and fix it yourself or at least give a good bug report.

Cheers

Alex


On 15/05/13 18:05, Cesar Bermudez wrote:
Good info Michael, like usual.
Regards.

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Mehroz Ashraf <mehroz.ashraf85@gmail.com> wrote:
About FusionPBX, i guess this is not a complete opensource solution, the dialplan area is hidden and you cannot change it according to your requirements (correct me if i am wrong)... overall functionality is good and support is alive.

Can you expand upon this? I don't recall the dialplan being "hidden" and I'm sure the source code is open for all to see. It may be that the method of handling call routing in the UI is less flexible than some people might need but I don't consider that necessarily a bad thing. A GUI by definition restricts one's options. That's the entire point of a GUI - to abstract away all but the "essential" items. I haven't used Fusion in a while but last time I did it had a place to edit directly the XML files which means you can always make your own custom extensions if need be.

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