What PHP class to use for accessing NNTP

Question

I'd like to access NNTP servers, groups, and messages through PHP. Is there any existing class you'd recommend? Preferably PHP5 and good OOP.

Answer 1

It's not a class, but must php installs have the php-imap extension compiled in and you can do all you want with straight php calls.

You can see documentation starts here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php

Examples of opening a connection to an NNTP server can be found in the imap_open topic.

Like this:

  // To connect to an group on an NNTP server on port 119 on the local server, use:
  $nntp = imap_open ("{localhost:119/nntp}comp.test", "", "");

OR

  // To connect to a nonlocal server without specifying a group:
  $server = "{news.servername.com/nntp:119}";
  $nntp = imap_open($server,"","",OP_HALFOPEN);

Then you can just request the info that you want:

  $headers = imap_headers($nntp);     
  $threads = imap_thread($nntp);

That's not exactly what you'd asked for, but I hope it helps.

Answer 2

Also not a class, and also not OOP, and also not PHP 5 specific, the code behind http://news.php.net is available here:

php-news sources