the word echo or a @ ?

thicko here when it comes to php you know and which php file ?

Thanks Gilby
I did what you said with the sql and everything seems to be working now.
I have another question that I know if kind of dumb, but I cannot figure it out. If I want to make a new forum in my control panel, how to I set the forum ID so that I can pipe the newsgroup posts into it . The only setting I could find to change was the order and they all seem to be set to 1
Thanks again

If you hover over the forum title in the Admin CP you will see something like this:

http://wocs.net/forumdisplay.php?forumid=60

The forum ID is mentioned at the end of the link

eg: forumid=60

Thats where you get the forum ID from, all you do then is enter that number into the MySQL database in the relevent section.

Hope this answers your question.

Andrew

I dont think you can alter or choose the forumid, the vbulletin software does that for you, if you do find away tho, give me a shout, cos my forumsids are in the 60 - 80 range, and I only have around 12 forums.

Thanks for the reply Sanjiyan
I never understood where they got the forum Id's before.
I fixed the forum ID and ran went to the gateway.php in my browser, but it does not seem to pipe anything in, I just get this on the white screen and nothing more. Any ideas on what else I need to do, sorry to be such a pain

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to east.usenetserver.com, group alt.binaries.nude.celebrities.female

<a href="http://www.africaplanet.com/" target="_blank">http://www.africaplanet.com/</a>

Success, I was able to successfully install this hack with vbulletin 2.2.4 version. You can see it in action at the above URL

<a href="https://groups.google.com/groups?" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/groups?</a>

Anyway to download and display forums based not just on a particular newsgroup but refined more by topic/word search as
is possible through doing a search at google?

Do you mean from all newsgroups? Or posts just from one newsgroup? If the first, I am not aware of anything in the NNTP specifications that allow searching, but maybe there is. If there isn't, you'll have to download all newsgroups you want to search through and throw out the irrelevant posts.

If just in the one newsgroup you want to narrow it down, then you'd just throw out the irrelevant posts. I have not implimented anything to do this yet though.

See the google search feature for the newsgroups.
I included a link to it!

Does that mean you want it for all newsgroups? Then just set up all the newsgroups with this script! ;) Oh and if you do that, please let me know how the script handles that many posts. :)