Mobile Extension - Alternative User Configuration?

[jnfern]

Hello all,

The current user administration web page from Mobile Extension isn't good enough for what we want. The 4 digit password is a concern to open it up to the world, and we would like to be able to specify what settings the users can and can't change.

I've been investigating other options, and I thought I could configure PostgreSQL to accept connection from other than localhost, and then write a PHP page which would manipulate the data.

I have done this, however changing the database doesn't instantly update Mobile Extension. The only way I've been able to make it read the changes is send a HUP signal (or restart etc), but that will stop any calls in progress etc.

Obviously this doesn't happen when the Save button is used. Does anyone know a way to get Mobile Extension to reread the database? I could go about this differently, and perhaps configure my PHP page to upload a CSV to the Mobile Extension web server - although this seems more clunky.

 

[Webmany]

You could use a perl or php backend that manipulates the webpage portion of ME, that way the changes would be instant. Basically acting as if it is a user going through a web browser.

 

[jnfern]

Thanks for the reply. This is something which I have considered, although wouldn't be as tidy as doing it all through the database. It looks like I might end up doing it this way as I can't find any way to make the system reload the database data without actually restarting the ME service.