Version: 1.00, by Gilby
Developer Last Online: Apr 2013
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 02-19-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 71
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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.
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).
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Great work on this hack. I had it up and running on the beta release. Then I upgraded to gamma and reinstalled the hack and the latest gateway.php file you have and this is the error I'm getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: convert_url_to_bbcode() in \www\vb3\gateway.php on line 181
I have this line on the top:
require_once("includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php");
The function is in that file. If it is not there anymore, please do a search for that function (convert_url_to_bbcode). If you use Linux, you can try:
#grep "function convert_url_to_bbcode" * -r
If this function does not exist anymore. Just delete the line containing this function in the gateway.php. It is only used to convert url to bbcode.
Ok, now it's asking me if I want to download gateway.php, what's wrong???
Sounds like you have your browser set up to download and save text files. The gateway script will output what it is doing in text instead of html so it tells the browser that in the header of the response.
Great work on this hack. I had it up and running on the beta release. Then I upgraded to gamma and reinstalled the hack and the latest gateway.php file you have and this is the error I'm getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: convert_url_to_bbcode() in \www\vb3\gateway.php on line 181
I have uploaded a new gateway.php for working with the v3 Gamma. Please refer to my original post.
Thanks lierduh, I have this working for vb3, however none of the posts are searchable (there are always no results). Is there something I need to alter?
Thanks lierduh, I have this working for vb3, however none of the posts are searchable (there are always no results). Is there something I need to alter?
That rings a bell, I might not have that implemented at the time. I will go through the code later to fix this.
Edit:
I just had a look, the code actually has the search index builder at line 262 and 353. In this case, I am not sure why the posts are not searchable for you. Perhaps make sure you have:
// build_post_index function
require_once("includes/functions_databuild.php");
Lierduh> I've upgraded to gamma (forum & gateway) but still have the same problem. All the lines are in the code. Searching is enabled on the boards, I just get 'sorry no matches'. I've had a look at the db in phpmyadmin - there are no entries in the 'word' table (from memory I think that is where the index is built). Same thing with thread preview. I'll keep looking..
Dethfire> I'm not aware that google groups provide a usenet/newsgroup feed. You need a provider like www.teranews.com or www.newsfeeds.com
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