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About Developer · **Released**: 02-19-2002

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).

Marv · #**412** 06-27-2002, 05:42 PM

hi,

meanwhile the script is up & running. Okay..gateway.php still doesn?t tell me "All done" after it?s finished but that?s no problem at all - beside that it works perfectly and gets the job done. That?s what matters.

May be someone could assist me with a minor problem. gateway.php has to be run in your browser everytime you want to synchronize posts with the newsserver. (BTW: I have to do this with Opera or Netscape cause MSIE always wants to [i]download[/] gateway.php instead of executing the file..)

As someone mentioned a few posts before you could use opera and the built-in refresh-option or do it seperatly in a html-file like this

Code:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="900">
<meta NAME="Robots" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
<title>Iframe Newsgroup Synchronizer</title>
</head>

<body>
Iframe Newsgroup-Synchronizer

<iframe src="http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/gateway.php" width="100%" height="400" name="gateway.php in a box">
<p>Ihr Browser kann leider keine eingebetteten Frames anzeigen:
Sie k&ouml;nnen die eingebettete Seite &uuml;ber den folgenden Verweis
aufrufen: <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/gateway.php">manuelle Newsserver-Abfrage</a></p>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

We?re on a shared server and so we?re not allowed to run cronjobs. Is it possible to let this job be done by another php.file ?

What I was thinking of:
I guess the most users here - assumed 98 percent of all german bb?s are installed on shared web-servers - can?t do cronjobs.

A solution to that could be to include a - let me call it - "pusher-option" which forces gateway.php to execute without any browser output. (in case the script won?t work proper vb?s db is already configged to send you an eMail-notification every time the error appears)

To reduce bandwith and transfer-volume a new function should be added to this that gateway.php is only executable every 15 (or whatever) minutes.

In practice it would happen like this:
User clicks the newsgroup-forum-link --> this one opens the forum and at the same time is executing gateway.php in a hidden way (without output to the users browser).
After that certain others are viewing this newsgroup-forum but only after [x]-minutes the gateway.php should be executed again by a click on the forum-link.
Otherwise on Boards with a heavy user load your transfer-volume would increase rapidly - and it?s not necsessary to synchronize with the newsserver every 60 seconds and let the users wait another 30 seconds until gateway.php is through with this job until they can view the threads inside..

Meanwhile I?m quite sure this belongs to the request-Forum, but I`ll leave it in here also. May be someone?s stumbling over this posting and.... :classic:

Regards,
Marv.

Bro_Joey_Gowdy · #**413** 06-28-2002, 10:11 PM

anyone know of any cheap usenet account providers ?

Bro_Joey_Gowdy · #**414** 06-29-2002, 05:09 PM

Is this hack compatable with http://www.usenet-access.com ??

(thinks to himself - if I ask enough questions some is bound to reply)

Marv · #**415** 06-29-2002, 06:03 PM

Hi Joey,

it should, Joey. The Newsgate Script is still using standard-ports and
therefore I see no reason why it shouldn´t work.

*a friendly smile through the line*,
Marv.

Marv · #**416** 06-29-2002, 06:09 PM

um...that means.. so far as I remember - hadn?t some of us serious probs to
keep this script going with presupposed username/passwords?
In case thats correct, guess you have to check the whole thread.. so I hope
I?m wrong

Bro_Joey_Gowdy · #**417** 06-29-2002, 08:40 PM

Thanks Marv,

God bless you !!

mcncyo · #**418** 07-01-2002, 09:18 AM

does this hack with verison 2.2.6?

Bro_Joey_Gowdy · #**419** 07-01-2002, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cyo
does this hack with verison 2.2.6?

Yes

(p.s. - awesome avatar - Im a Jesus Freak as well)

Frenck · #**420** 07-07-2002, 12:36 PM

My forum is using the attachment to files hack, but the gateway script seems to put the attachments into the database?!

How to make this script working with the attachments to files hack?

Besides this little problem, the script is running fine! Great work!

Odoin · #**421** 07-09-2002, 02:42 AM

This might have been asked before, but there is so many posts I do not have time to search through them...

My question is... Is there a way to limit the amount of messages inported by the NNTP client? I mean like this one news group has over 5000+ messages and the client will not download them all at one shot it seems to time out before it gets done. Then I have to take the last message id and mod the forum with it, and start over but then the dates are messed up and it looks like all the messages were posted today. Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Mark Laudenbach

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