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).

[Sanjiyan]

it does not get anywahere, it gave me a blank screen again, so I added that error code stuff to it and got this:

<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: HTTP_POST_VARS in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>88</b><br>

Would you like me to add a dir listing of my forums directory to help?

[Gilby]

I'll modify the NNTP class so that it doesn't require pear. That could be the problem.

[Sanjiyan]

just did a refresh again and this code again:

<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: HTTP_POST_VARS in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>85</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Undefined index: action in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php</b> on line <b>88</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/global.php:85) in <b>/usr/home/wocsnet/public_html/admin/functions.php</b> on line <b>1530</b><br>

I am sorry for spamming this, but I would really really love to get this working in some manner, and I am greatful for the help and assistance you are providing

[Sanjiyan]

here is a jpg showing my root folder where my forums are located. its all there right ?

[Gilby]

Try the attached nntp.php which does not require PEAR.

[GameCrash]

Originally posted by Gilby
Try the attached nntp.php which does not require PEAR.

both don't work for me Just a blank page...

[GameCrash]

Erm... does the script use UDP? I think this is disabled at my providers firewall...

[Sanjiyan]

well
I get no feed back from the script, nothing at all, bar the white screen, but the progress bar is at the 50% mark and suck there.

Could it be that there is a problem with the server or perl on the server? if so what perl mods are needed so I can ask my host support ?

but if you would, can you run the gateway.php from my site:

www.wocs.net/gateway.php

and see what happens, I have to go to dinner right now so I shall be back on in 20 minutes ok? if you could try that link for me and see what happens I'd be greatful.

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Sanjiyan
Could it be that there is a problem with the server or perl on the server? if so what perl mods are needed so I can ask my host support ?

This script does not use perl, so there is no messing around with that sort of thing.

Do you know what version of php you are using?

[GameCrash]

Originally posted by GameCrash
does the script use UDP?

Does it? If yes, then I don't have to test any more...