NNTP Newsgroups Importing
 

I'm currently using the older NNTP mod found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92588

However, it doesn't really work correctly with vBulletin 3.7 (it imports but doesn't export) so I am looking for an updated version with the following features:

• Imports newsgroup content to forum
• Exports forum created content back to newsgroup
• Admin option to allow newsgroup users to be registered users on your forums by auto creating accounts using the username and email address passed from the newsgroup

I don't currently have the time do go through the older code and do the required updates to it to add these functions in a 3.7 compatible manner.

While this is a free request, if done well and works how I want it to work then there is a possibility of a small donation or a link to be placed on my sites network pages (pages with links to all the sites in my network and selected other sites where link exchanges have been negotiated) by way of thanks. There is no guarantee of this though, as it depends on how closely it matches my requirements.

Any takers?

I set it up and it would post back to the news group for me?

Well, the mod does work for me ok in standard form, but I`m tweaking it to allow more than 1 instance for importing binaries. Currently it works ok, but it`s vulnerable to sudden mysql restarts, and there is no real protection to that, just to reset the workers. I`ve pretty much downloaded the v3.5 of the current NNTP mod, and just started tweaking it, removing bugs as I go along.

PS. I also have on my agenda a future upgrade of the NNTP class, since it was primarily built for php v4.

Anyone make any progress on this?

Depends on what you`re referring to "progress"

Bug cleanup and getting things to work properly for 3.7. Right now it doesn't seem to be exporting and I get a lot of duplicate threads because it is not posting replies correctly.

well, I`m only using to import, and have customized it a bit to import more, so it stresses the server a bit more. I`ll probably need to take a look on the importer. Thing is, this script is using an old pear class.

I'd love an updated version for 3.7 too :)

I would also be interested in getting this up to speed. I really need it to download from binary groups and display the pictures as attachments. So far I have been unable to get this to work.