Back-end driven VoicePHP application January 27, 2009
All practical applications need to use the data on the back-end to drive certain aspect of the application behavior. For voice based interaction, it can be quite easily done in VoicePHP.
Diagram below shows a typical application flow.
Key steps to look at:
- User interacts with the VoicePHP script.
- VoicePHP script interacts with the back-end**.
- Back-end does a database lookup and formulates appropriate response which is then conveyed to user via VoicePHP interaction.
Consider the sample code below. It is split into a front-end VoicePHP file that interacts with the user and a back-end PHP file (back-end could be anything – PHP, ASP, .NET etc.).
<?php
// frontend.voicephp
// ...
$pin = prompt("Enter Your Pin Number"); // Back-end can use
$result = notify("http://backend.myserver.com/authenticate.php?pin=$pin");
echo "You name is $result";
// ...
?>
<?php
// backend.php
//PIN used to validate the user.
$pin = $_REQUEST['pin'];
// ... assuming database is connected ..
$result = mysql_query("select * from user_info where userpin = '$pin'");
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
// ... do other processing and return ...
// $row[1] -> User Name
echo "$row[1]";
?>
As you can see, in the front-end VoicePHP file,
- The user is asked to enter the PIN number.
- Using notify, the application passes the information to the back-end script.
- It uses the response from notify to echo the output to user.
In the back-end script,
- The PIN number is used to do a database lookup.
- Relevant information (name, in this case) is returned back.
** Note: If one was using the “premise model”, the VoicePHP script could interact with the database directly.
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