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is it possible to search newsgroups with php

May 17th, 2008 21:33
dman, Alina jane, raun siegal, Articles Hosting, Philip Olson, Erich Kolb, Brett Shaw, http://www.ttnr.org

Have a look at this article :

  Using sockets in PHP : Get articles from Usenet             :
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  http://phpbuilder.com/columns/armel20010427.php3

fsockopen() will be used, it's manual entry can be seen :

  fsockopen -- Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection :
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  http://www.php.net/manual/function.fsockopen.php 

Be sure to view :

  Network News Transfer Protocol                               :
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  http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc977/rfc977.html

A couple PHP applications exist that may interest you, such as :

  Newsportal NNTP gateway                                      :
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  http://www.goret.org/newsportal/

  News-Portal WebNewsReader                                    :
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  http://floh.gartenhaus.net/newsportal/

And for informational purposes, the PHP mailing list archives can be 
viewed here :

  news://news.php.net/