NNTP Gateway (Usenet/Newsgroups)

This hack provides a gateway to any NNTP newsgroup such as those from Usenet and other newsgroup servers. Selected newsgroups are imported from your news server and post on the forum are sent out to the newsgroup. This hack was greatly inspired by fastforward's usenet gateway hack. This one is a complete rewrite of that hack written in PHP and works with vB 2.2.2.

Installation:
Installation is pretty simple. No modifications to the vB php files are needed and it simply consists of dropping in the files to your forums directory, running the SQL modifications, and modifying the newsgroup settings for your desired newsgroups. For the complete installation details, read the readme.txt file.

Here are some of the features:

• Real cool vbcode to text conversion!
• All posts are inserted, even if parent thread cannot be found for replies
• Guests posts also get sent to the newsgroup.
• Importing of attachments from the newsgroup
• Poll info sent to newsgroup
• Attachment link sent to newsgroup
• Supports unlimited newsgroups and servers.
• email notification of new replies, just like regular forum posts
• Can import HTML messages and convert to limited vb code.

For control panel integration, please check out GameCrash's Graphical Interface addition.

What's not in it that was in fastforward's usenet gateway hack:

• No control panel integration at the moment. (Available separately)
• Does not support separate footers
• Does not allow custom email address to be used via the users option
• No spam control or string replacement support.
• No purging or autoexpire.

There is still lots that I'd like to add to it, but this is competely functional for basic newsgroup gateway support. It is most likely not free of bugs. If you have questions, suggestions or annoyances, please post in this thread.

vb3 support
lierduh modified this to provide support for the beta versions of vb3. When the release candidates of vb3 come out, I plan to add support for vb3 and add other features to this hack. If you have suggestions for new features, let me know.

E-mail gateway support
New in this version, you can now gateway with an email list. This will fetch emails from a POP email account and send via php's mail function to the mailing list's email address. To set up the list, in the newsgroup field, enter in the email address to send outgoing posts to. In the server field, enter in the pop3 server, and in the username and password fields enter in, you guessed it, the username and password to your pop account. Note: the email gateway capabilities has not been fully tested, so it might not work with your POP server. Also, it does not work in combo with a news<->forum gateway in the same forum (you can use either kind though in differnet forums within your forums).

[hubba]

for me it works just fine... just a question for the crontab: Has to be a Carriage Return at the ent of the line in the crontab.txt?

Edit: Ist has

[lierduh]

Thanks. Looks like that SQL only works with MySQL 4.

Please download the new version. I have got rid of this section of code altogether.

Originally Posted by allan grossman

Output from the manual query -

==========

Error

SQL-query :

UPDATE post,
thread SETpost.isusenetpost = 1 WHERE post.threadid = thread.threadid AND post.isusenetpost = 0 AND thread.forumid NOT IN ( 25, 27, 29, 34 )

MySQL said:


You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' thread SET post.isusenetpost = 1 WHERE post.threadid = thread.threadid AND post' at line 1

==========

MySQL version is 3.23

[lierduh]

Originally Posted by Imhotep

installed registry patch from M$, ran setlastmsg.php and got...

Use this modified one. Delete this file after installation!

[Imhotep]

thank you sir! that new file did the trick.

I have a new error now. lol

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE post 
SET attach=attache + 1 WHERE postid=25711
mysql error: Unknown column 'attache' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Friday 14th of May 2004 12:20:03 PM
Script: http://
Referer: 
Username: Unregistered
IP Address:

I'm getting this once per hour as my crontab runs.

hmmm... :ermm:

[allan grossman]

Originally Posted by lierduh

Thanks. Looks like that SQL only works with MySQL 4.

Please download the new version. I have got rid of this section of code altogether.

That worked. Everything's going swimmingly now, lierduh - thanks

[allan grossman]

lierduh, there's a typo in your SQL query for the upgrade from May 12 script - the two-line query at the bottom of the post -

"hohor_no-archive" should read "honor_no-archive"

I fixed my database but others might not have seen it.

cheers -

allan

[Imhotep]

I think we should start another thread... lol

Any thoughts on this new error?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE post
SET attach=attache + 1 WHERE postid=25715 mysql error: Unknown column 'attache' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Friday 14th of May 2004 04:20:11 PM
Script: http://
Referer:
Username: Unregistered
IP Address

PHP version 4.3.3

Running latest files posted.

[allan grossman]

Originally Posted by Imhotep

I think we should start another thread... lol

Any thoughts on this new error?



PHP version 4.3.3

Running latest files posted.

Change line 353 in gateway.php

from

SET attach=attache + 1 WHERE postid=$postid");

to

SET attach=attach + 1 WHERE postid=$postid");

[lierduh]

Thanks Allan.

I will upload the file with the typos corrected shortly.

I have received permission from Gilby allowing me to release this hack under the vB3 section of the forums. So I will create a thread there in the next one or two days. That should make the support easier.

[allan grossman]

Originally Posted by lierduh

Thanks Allan.

I will upload the file with the typos corrected shortly.

I have received permission from Gilby allowing me to release this hack under the vB3 section of the forums. So I will create a thread there in the next one or two days. That should make the support easier.

No - thank you, lierduh - you've really gone above and beyond.

cheers -

allan