RE: [PEAR] NNTP Breaking

FWIW, I figured out what the problem was. Maybe this will help someone in the future, so I'm posting my findings. In the demo file "group.php" that comes with the Net_NNTP class, line 64: $msgs = array_reverse($nntp->getOverview( $msgcount-9, $msgcount)); doesn't work correctly if the messages on the newsserver aren't numbered from 1 to $mgscount. I did a var_dump($msgdata) on line 63, which was correctly returning "first"=>"40400", "last"=>"40500" So the messagecount = 100 (correct) but the code $nntp->getOverview(90,100) failed (technically it didn't fail, it just returned '.' which is actually correct since there are no messages numbered 90 - 100. I changed line 64 to read: $msgs = array_reverse($nntp->getOverview( (int)$msgdata["last"]-9, (int)$msgdata["last"] )); which calls $nntp->getOverview(40590, 40500) using the correct article-nums, and it worked as expected. One other thing I found in the demo files was that the location of the Net_NNTP class file wasn't the same in index.php, groups.php, and read.php. I had to change them all to require_once "Net/NNTP.php" and move NNTP.php to the Net folder. Should I send my updated code to the developer(s) - or is there a standard policy for updating PEAR classes when you're not the original author? Geoff Hoffman