this is probably a stupid question, but i haven't been able to figure out it out so far.

I have an invite that i am re-writing, i was wondering if its possible to just use the gateway entry i have already configured.  for example, if i have a gateway called thisgateway, how would i construct the dialplan line for it?  i have currently used

 <action application="bridge" data="{sip_invite_req_uri=sip:'.$reqesturi['destination_number'].'@'.$carrier.',sip_cid_type=pid,ignore_display_update=true}sofia/gateway/'.$carrier.'/'.$outbound['destination_number'].'"/> 

this doesn't seem to work for me,  the $carrier variable is the name of the provider as configured in the xml files.  if i replace the $carrier variable with the addresses from the xml file it works fine as well.

thanks in advance,

anish