Re: PHP to read news
| From: | Chris Lott | Date: | Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:23:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP to read news | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On 10/19/05, Steve <steve@fantasynetwork.biz> wrote:
> I'm looking for some help with reading freely available news files like
> this: news://newsclip.ap.org/NY16310182138@news.ap.org
>
> <news://newsclip.ap.org/NY16310182138@news.ap.org%22/%3E%3C/media>.
> I'm able to connect to the newsgroup with the IMAP functions just file,
> but this type of news url can be placed in a browser like mozilla and
> the message will be pulled, so i'm thinking it should be much easier
> than that.
When you use the browser to access using the news: protocol you are
actually invoking NNTP functions. That's whats the IMAP functions you
are using are also doing. So that is the proper way. I imagine if you
search for NNTP and PHP you will find some third party classes and
code that might help out too...
c
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Chris Lott