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).

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Sanjiyan

ok now all I get is this:

<br>
<b>Fatal error</b>: Cannot redeclare logging() in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/nntp.php</b> on line <b>328</b><br>

then IE says done, no other feedback..

try again... it just removed that.

[Sanjiyan]

what redownload it or just re run the file?

[Sanjiyan]

cant do anything for 5-10 minutes anyway the site where I am trying this out, the server its running on has just ran out of disk space, so I have got my host to delete the crap from it.

basically they are saying the script I am running has done a runaway somehow and has filled around 60 gigs worth of data somehow, so they are clearing it off for me. so I can reupload the new nntp.php

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Sanjiyan
what redownload it or just re run the file?

Download it again

[Sanjiyan]

Originally posted by Gilby


Download it again

ok downlaoded the file
and just uplaoded it to my site as my host just waked on another disk to the array for the time being :P

and I get this:

urm.. right.... it worked on the webdiscuss.test go I deleted that group from the sql databse and added my own isps newserver, it worked witjh one group in the list.

is there chance I can ask for a nntp.php that gives me feedback as it access the news server and downloads the data or is that out of the question ? or does this do it?

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Sanjiyan

urm.. right.... it worked on the webdiscuss.test go I deleted that group from the sql databse and added my own isps newserver, it worked witjh one group in the list.

is there chance I can ask for a nntp.php that gives me feedback as it access the news server and downloads the data or is that out of the question ? or does this do it?

So does that mean it works for you now with all your newsgroups?

I attached an nntp.php that will output the nntp server's responses.

[Sanjiyan]

Originally posted by Gilby


So does that mean it works for you now with all your newsgroups?

so far it does yes
I have it running with 2 groups, now with this script I'll run it with all 10 :P give it a pounding as it where

[Sanjiyan]

hmmmm

is says this using that new nntp.php (below)

but this is weird is it the script of my server cos 5 minutes ago I was downloading news from rec.arts.anime and rec.arts.anime.creative...

anyway heres waht it says. and I really apprecaiate your help in this, give me your address and I'll ship a crate of Roses chocolates to you for thanks ^_^

10 group(s) gatewayed.
200 Powered by Typhoon 2.0 -- http://www.highwinds-software.com/ (Typhoon v2.0.0)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Authentication Failed
211 99 3216690 3216800 rec.arts.anime
Logging in to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk, group rec.arts.anime:
200 Powered by Typhoon 2.0 -- http://www.highwinds-software.com/ (Typhoon v2.0.0)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Authentication Failed
211 117 3216740 3216874 rec.arts.anime.creative
Logging in to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk, group rec.arts.anime.creative:
200 Powered by Typhoon 2.0 -- http://www.highwinds-software.com/ (Typhoon v2.0.0)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Authentication Failed
211 293 3235896 3236281 rec.arts.anime.fandom
Logging in to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk, group rec.arts.anime.fandom:
220 3235897 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 05:29:25 GMTGetting message number 3235897: New thread; 'FA: Moldiver Complete (all 6 episodes) Region 1 *MINT*' from M.R.

[Sanjiyan]

ahh found a snag I think, unsure....

it keeps on losing connect to the mysql database is the the script of my vbulletin ?

[Tim Wheatley]

Doesn't that mean it requires a username and password? The server needs you logged in?