Getting list of newsgroups via php

[Travis McCarter]

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I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all
the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database.
I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of
them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried
on my own for about 2 hours with no luck. If someone can point me in
the right direction to download the group list using PHP, I think I
can figure out how to write it to a database.

Thanks,
Travis

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[sam]

Re: Getting list of newsgroups via php


To get the list of all newsgroups use the LIST command:

----------- FROM RFC977 (NNTP PROTOCOL)-----------

LIST

Returns a list of valid newsgroups and associated information. Each
newsgroup is sent as a line of text in the following format:

group last first p

where <group> is the name of the newsgroup, <last> is the number of
the last known article currently in that newsgroup, <first> is the
number of the first article currently in the newsgroup, and <p> is
either 'y' or 'n' indicating whether posting to this newsgroup is
allowed ('y') or prohibited ('n').

-------------------- END ------------------------

For more infos about the NNTP protocol:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977

HTH

"Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
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> I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all
> the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database.
> I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of
> them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried
> on my own for about 2 hours with no luck. If someone can point me in
> the right direction to download the group list using PHP, I think I
> can figure out how to write it to a database.
>
> Thanks,
> Travis
>
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[Travis McCarter]

Re: Getting list of newsgroups via php

But how do you do it programatically ? Can I read each group into a string?

Travis


"sam" <rbaba99@carama il.com> wrote in message
news:bk1bdl$1li d$1@news.cyberc ity.dk...[color=blue]
>
> To get the list of all newsgroups use the LIST command:
>
> ----------- FROM RFC977 (NNTP PROTOCOL)-----------
>
> LIST
>
> Returns a list of valid newsgroups and associated information. Each
> newsgroup is sent as a line of text in the following format:
>
> group last first p
>
> where <group> is the name of the newsgroup, <last> is the number of
> the last known article currently in that newsgroup, <first> is the
> number of the first article currently in the newsgroup, and <p> is
> either 'y' or 'n' indicating whether posting to this newsgroup is
> allowed ('y') or prohibited ('n').
>
> -------------------- END ------------------------
>
> For more infos about the NNTP protocol:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977
>
>
> HTH
>
> "Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
> news:3f63dbee_2 @athenanews.com ...[color=green]
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> > I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all
> > the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database.
> > I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of
> > them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried
> > on my own for about 2 hours with no luck. If someone can point me in
> > the right direction to download the group list using PHP, I think I
> > can figure out how to write it to a database.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Travis
> >
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>[/color]

[sam]

Re: Getting list of newsgroups via php

$nntp_server = "news.nntpserve r.com"; // set your server here
$nntp_port = 119; // do not change this unless you know what you do.
$time_out = 30; // timeout in seconds

$fp = fsockopen($nntp _server, $nntp_port, $errno, $errstr, $time_out);

if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)";
} else {

fputs($fp, "LIST\r\n") ;

while (!feof($fp)) {

// read one line from the socket

$buffer = fgets($fp,256);

// $buffer will contain something like
// this "alt.comp.lang. php 00000515 00000926 y"

/*
do what you want to do with the buffer here
*/
}

fclose ($fp);
}



"Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
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> But how do you do it programatically ? Can I read each group into a[/color]
string?[color=blue]
>
> Travis
>
>
> "sam" <rbaba99@carama il.com> wrote in message
> news:bk1bdl$1li d$1@news.cyberc ity.dk...[color=green]
> >
> > To get the list of all newsgroups use the LIST command:
> >
> > ----------- FROM RFC977 (NNTP PROTOCOL)-----------
> >
> > LIST
> >
> > Returns a list of valid newsgroups and associated information. Each
> > newsgroup is sent as a line of text in the following format:
> >
> > group last first p
> >
> > where <group> is the name of the newsgroup, <last> is the number of
> > the last known article currently in that newsgroup, <first> is the
> > number of the first article currently in the newsgroup, and <p> is
> > either 'y' or 'n' indicating whether posting to this newsgroup is
> > allowed ('y') or prohibited ('n').
> >
> > -------------------- END ------------------------
> >
> > For more infos about the NNTP protocol:
> > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > "Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
> > news:3f63dbee_2 @athenanews.com ...[color=darkred]
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> > > I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all
> > > the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database.
> > > I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of
> > > them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried
> > > on my own for about 2 hours with no luck. If someone can point me in
> > > the right direction to download the group list using PHP, I think I
> > > can figure out how to write it to a database.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Travis
> > >
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>[/color]

[Moreno Tiziani]

Re: Getting list of newsgroups via php

"Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
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> But how do you do it programatically ? Can I read each group into a string?[/color]

Have a look to mynewsgroups :) :

http://mynewsgroups.sourceforge.net/

Hope this help you!


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[Nexus]

Re: Getting list of newsgroups via php

"Travis McCarter" <travism@sunris enetwork.net> wrote in message
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> But how do you do it programatically ? Can I read each group into a string?[/color]

Have a look to mynewsgroups :) :

http://mynewsgroups.sourceforge.net/

Hope this help you!




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