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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/