The basics is easy, as far as I understand:
They type something like http://yoursite/yourscript.php?did=x&clid=y&confno=z
in their browser, or whatever they use to send it (like an voice respons system).
Your webserver activates your script. Your scripts processes the parameters and makes the answer. Your short story doesn't tell the rules about how to construct the answer from the input (the transformation rules, but I assume there's a database involved somehow), nor how the username/password-combination fits in.
Once the script has the answer it sends it back in some format, like php-scripts use to do.
Why not ask "them" for some clarification?
Kees
Hi,
Hopefully someone can help us out.
We have to provide a URL that will reply to HTTP GET requests with the proper data. I know my way around web server admin very well, but I have zero experience sending back data to HTTP GET requests! Could some please help out, its very basic data username/password (basically). We need to maintain and update the data source regularly also.
Here is what they gave us...
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In order to use this you must have a working webserver and the ability to update content on it. You will need to have a script that will accept an HTTP GET for each caller. We will send the following variables:
did - This is the number that was dialed
clid - This is the caller id number of the caller
confno - This is the conference number the caller is requesting
In addition you must return data to us in the following format
STATUS=OK
PIN=1234
The pin argument is optional, if specified the caller will be prompted to enter a pin number, if it is not there, no pin will be requested or used for that conference. If STATUS is not 'OK' then the caller will be informed that the conference number is not valid and asked to reenter their conference number.
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...thats all I have to work with.
So we need to have a document that contains a line for each user, providing the data above for each user/password.
I tried just throwing up a spreadsheet with the lines but after doing some research I can see I'm WAY off base! I have been trying to do this my self all morning with no luck, nothing I found is this basic. Most everything pertains to specifics.
Our webserver is Linux based, PHP, MySQL with Cpanel 10. Your standard host package.
Could someone show me how to make this happen, with an easy way to update and maintain the data we send back?
Thank you so very much!
Alex

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