This should be the tables in a SQL file for you :).

Thanks so much odion. I tried looking in the files for it and just now saw them in the nntp settings file but with the file you supplied I won't have to look for it.

liederuh you forgot the nntp.sql in the new version ;)

and thx again for your help ..

The Cronjob i do is onlyy the path to gateway in vb cron added?

got another error, maybe you know something about this :D .. i hope i am creating not to much errors and asking you holes in the stomach :D
this error appears if an article in the group has many answers (over 30) or i porting more than 100 articles. It seems he wants to buffer the imported data into a file? but it also seems if i would chmod gateway.php to 777 than he would overwrite it with the buffered data, right?! so the gateway.php would be overwritten and unuseable for the nexttime, but anyway, if i start it again with the next message id it will import correctly , so that means the last message id creates this error ..

.. BUt hey its a great script .. i really like it is very useful!

Questions
1. Do you know where i can find a list of the newsgroup servers? Only search engines or similar sites wich posts the articles itself i found, the nntp servers are really under heavy secret .. nobody wants to share this information. I searched google for days now and i only found some open, but not very good, newsgroup adresses.
Where i can find the Adresses for the nntp servers?

2. The "Guests" who wrotes the usenet articles in the specified Forum i choose is signed as guest, i want to know if its not possible to integrate it in the script while it imports the articles to sign the "guest" as "usenet Guest" it would look much better :D .. i will crawl trough the code :D maybe i can answer this myself!


This is minimum the hack of the month, better would sound the hack of the YEAR 2004!

greetings from germany
Daniel (Highlander)

Want take a look of the imported articles:
Usenet Forums with the imported articles

No... it makes the tables for you when you run the script from the admin panel the first time...

Alright, I'll install the latest version. :)

It needs to hack into "who on line" script. I don't see the immediate need for this. Besides one less php script to touch is always a good thing.

The best way to do when this happens is to delete both nntp_groups and nntp_settings tables. Open the AdminCP interfaces. These tables will be recreated by the AdminCP.

You are using an older version of the script. Get the new one! If you click the "Install" button on top right of this page. You will receive update/bug fix emails from me for this hack.

Just enter gateway.php without the cron bit into your vB cron job list.

From next version, the default calling of gateway.php will not involve the debugging messages displayed on the screen. If you need to see those messages, then one will need to call the script as .../gateway.php?debug=1.

I doubt many people is using a free news server. Although sometimes you can find misconfiged news servers wide open, it is not guaranteed to work the next day. Subscribe to one of cheapie news server for a couple of bucks/Euro/month is the best way to go. I have seen some need only one time registration with small fee to pay. Or change the host to one who lets you access to a news server.

There is no need for this file with the newer version. If you use this old file, extra empty no use fields will be created!

okai thx .. what about the posting .. i mean exporting to a newsgroup. a user told me that when i post a horroble wide range of unsorted html tags showed up, so that my postings there messed up the whole style .. nearly unreadable with some vb-tags and many html tags.

i disabled html in all my forums and the img code .. should i disable also the vb and smiley code in this forums to export posts on the right way?

here an example: