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).

[floridaideal]

Hi all

I have been trying to work out the problem I talked about above about my posts on the forum not being sent to the newsgroups and still can't work the problem can someone please help me solve this problem!

A little more info

I am using VB 2.3
Using Clara.net as my news provider (has username and pass to access)
and also installed the interface.

Somone please help

my email is admin@floridaideal.com

Thank you

Stuart

[lierduh]

Today at 10:37 AM floridaideal said this in Post #591
Hi all

I have been trying to work out the problem I talked about above about my posts on the forum not being sent to the newsgroups and still can't work the problem can someone please help me solve this problem!

Stuart

Have you had a cron job to run the script?

the gateway.php needs to be run regularly to retrieve and post your newly posted messeages to the news server. You can manually run the script and see what message you have on the screen. Just run:

http:/www.yourforums.com/gateway.php

[MaDCaT75]

Wow I must be one stupid +++++ I cant understand how to install this :cry:

[insanctus]

Today at 02:22 AM MaDCaT75 said this in Post #593
Wow I must be one stupid bitch I cant understand how to install this :cry:

Takes time just relax

[MaDCaT75]

Today at 07:28 AM insanctus said this in Post #594
Takes time just relax

I still say I'm a stupid ugly bitch

[irubin]

Hello,

I installed the hack with no problem. I am trying to execute gateway.php - and its updating the forum, but the lastmsg in the nntp_groups table never gets updated - and the browser is attempting to download gateway.php

any ideas?

[floridaideal]

Hello

Is there anyway of making the newsgroups you downloaded NOT count for the final forum post count at the top of the screen?

Thanks

Stuart

[floridaideal]

Hello

Is there anyway of making the newsgroups you downloaded NOT count for the final forum post count at the top of the screen?

Thanks

Stuart

[RealCarAudio]

In the admin section you can edit the forum and there is an option close to the bottom were you state if you want the post count for that forum to be calculated in the total post count.

[saab340]

I receive this error from cron e-mail... and its killing the server after it gets in the loop.... it used to work fine, what is going on, and how could I fix this....

Here is the message:
Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid FROM thread,post WHERE thread.threadid=post.threadid and (thread.title='BAR:Safety Hazard & High Performance/Complex?' OR post.title LIKE '%BAR:Safety Hazard & High Performance/Complex?' OR thread.title='BAR:Safety Hazard & High Performance/Complex?' OR post.title LIKE '%BAR:Safety Hazard & High Performance/Complex?') AND (thread.forumid=187) ORDER BY post.dateline DESC LIMIT 1
mysql error: Server shutdown in progress

mysql error number: 1053