Posted by Sandman on 07/11/06 18:33

In article <44b38bb8$0$21082$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
"ceg" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> "Sandman" <mr@sandman.net> wrote in message
> news:mr-C6D7EF.09555104072006@individual.net...
> > Ok, I do NOT want to *connect* to a NNTP server from PHP, I want to -
> > from a NNTP client - connect to a NNTP server that is powered by PHP.
> >
> > Specifically, I want articles, forum posts and such from my web site
> > to be readable via a NNTP interface. So, when the client connects to
> > my server, a hierarchy might look like this:
> >
> > sandman.forum.gaming
> > sandman.forum.media
> > sandman.articles.weblogs
> >
> > And so on... Upon reading any such group, all articles show up in a
> > threaded manner (i.e. replies/comment).
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> you might look at something like a program called nntp//rss. i use e107 for
> my sites. i have nntp//rss set up to pull the news articles from my sites
> and make them available to a nntp reader such as oe or any other standard
> reader. the sites show up in the reader much like newsgroups for a regular
> news server. if interested, i'll post a link so you can see what i'm
> referring to.

Sure, I'd be interested in seeing that... As it is now, I'm using
socket_create() and is about to re-implement the entire nntp protocol
by myself... Phew. :)


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