You may want to go into the newsgroup server and look at the source of the last message on the server and get the Xref number out of it. Then set that as the lastmsg. This will prevent it from trying to download all the posts.

mine only connects to the webdes of what ever server it does not download any news should it?

Gilby: could you do me a favour and look at:
http://www.wocs.net/gateway.php and tell me if I should be getting those error messages?
because what you see there is all I get, and it does not download any news from the server it connects to.

Just try the webdiscuss one until we get it working. That is the test group I used when developing the script and has worked for me.

yes it connects to the server, but its not pulling any data from the news server should it be? if so then its not, plus I am getting errors, please see post 53. thanks

The warnings that are showing aren't a problem. Try this nntp.php, it'll output more about what it's doing.

it now says:

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<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: HTTP_POST_VARS in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>88</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php:85) in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/admin/functions.php</b> on line <b>1530</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php:85) in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/gateway.php</b> on line <b>424</b><br>
1 group(s) gatewayed.
381 PASS required
502 Authentication error
Logging in to webdiscuss.com, group webdiscuss.test:

Make suer you set the username and password to NULL (in phpMyAdmin, just leave it blank).

it is:

Edit Delete webdiscuss.test 66 0 webdiscuss.com NULL NULL 1

OK, there was a bug. Since you have the default password and username set, it used those. Please go to the first post inthe thread and get the fixed script and let me know if that works. If that still doesn't work, then upload the nntp.php I posted above that will output the responses and we'll see where we're at.