Posted by ceg on 07/13/06 21:40

"Sandman" <mr@sandman.net> wrote in message
news:mr-2036B5.20332511072006@individual.net...
> 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. :)

server is ceg.sytes.net on port 120. most of the "groups" that show up are
my sites. a couple are self-explanatory by their names and come from other
areas. you should be able to pick these up with most any standard news
reader program.




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