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Version: 1.00, by Gilby Gilby is offline
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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.

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).

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Old 03-03-2002, 01:55 AM
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I hard coded it like this, and now all my posts start with "Re:" even if its a new post... so definately something there about is wrong... I checked and its all original, nothing modded there.
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Old 03-03-2002, 02:11 AM
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I hard coded it like this, and now all my posts start with "Re:" even if its a new post... so definately something there about is wrong... I checked and its all original, nothing modded there.
Did it work fine before you made any edits to the hack?
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Well its working now... I dunno.... onlu thing I changed that I started posting from main forum, and not from post page itself.

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This is a cool hack, but its little over my head right now...
I think I might have some SQL issues...

I am missing some original posts... (I think they might be somewhere in my SQL... even tough I cleaned up the tables, by removing all the posts with isusenetpost =1 ... also cleaned up the index, and rebuilt it too. Is there something else I should have done?
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<a href="http://www.latriade.net/newsgroup/showthread.php?threadid=6862" target="_blank">http://www.latriade.net/newsgroup/sh...?threadid=6862</a>

quotes are in blue how i can put quote in white ? (or in font color of the theme )
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Originally posted by saab340
This is a cool hack, but its little over my head right now...
I think I might have some SQL issues...

I am missing some original posts... (I think they might be somewhere in my SQL... even tough I cleaned up the tables, by removing all the posts with isusenetpost =1 ... also cleaned up the index, and rebuilt it too. Is there something else I should have done?
Heh, I wish that was my problem. When running "prune messages", it completely crashes MySQL.
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Old 03-03-2002, 01:06 PM
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Quick question, is there a way to prevent soome useres posting not being downloaded.

I have this one user, who keeps postiing the same thing over and over again, and I would like to block his posts being downloaded.
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Quick question, is there a way to prevent soome useres posting not being downloaded.

I have this one user, who keeps postiing the same thing over and over again, and I would like to block his posts being downloaded.
I don't have any filters or replacements set up yet in the script. You may want to just change his permissions to not be able to post to that forum.

(I assuming the problem poster is posting on the forums?)
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Old 03-03-2002, 07:54 PM
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Stupid question, but in the nntp_settings table, the Email address domain,
do I need to put the domain name there (like mydomain.com), or
do I need to specify a full emailaddress (like us@ourdomain.com)
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Stupid question, but in the nntp_settings table, the Email address domain,
do I need to put the domain name there (like mydomain.com), or
do I need to specify a full emailaddress (like us@ourdomain.com)
Domain Name is enough

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