Getting messages from a newsgroup

Anon

Hi!

I've read the aricle "Using sockets in PHP" at phpbuilder.com, and I've managed to connect to a newsserver, and getting the numbers for the first and last message. But when I try to get the actual messages, nothing happens.

It works fine until I insert the piece of code that gets the messages.

Here it is:

<?php

//-------------------------------------------------
// connect to newsserver
//-------------------------------------------------

$cfgServer = "news.cybercity.dk";
$cfgPort = 119;
$cfgTimeOut = 10;

// open a socket
if(!$cfgTimeOut)
// without timeout
$usenet_handle = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort);
else
// with timeout
$usenet_handle = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort, &$errno, &$errstr, $cfgTimeOut);

if(!$usenet_handle) {
echo "Could not connect to " . $cfgServer . " ";
exit();
}

else {
echo "Not connected to: " . $cfgServer . " ";
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);
}

//-------------------------------------------------
// choose newsgroup
//-------------------------------------------------

// select newsgroup
$cfgNewsGroup = "dk.test";

fputs($usenet_handle, "GROUP ".$cfgNewsGroup."\n");
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);

if($tmp == "480 Authentication required for command\r\n") {
echo "$tmp\n";
exit();
}

$info = split(" ", $tmp);
$messages = $info[1];
$first = $info[2];
$last = $info[3];

echo "Number of messages: " . $messages . " ";
echo "First: " . $first . " ";
echo "Last: " . $last . " ";

//-------------------------------------------------
// Get messages
//-------------------------------------------------

$cfgLimit = 10;

$boucle=$last-$cfgLimit;

while ($boucle <= $last) {

set_time_limit(0); 

fputs($usenet_handle, "ARTICLE $boucle<br>");

$article="";
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 4096);
if(substr($tmp,0,3) != "220") {
    echo "+----------------------+<br>";
    echo "Error on article $boucle<br>";
    echo "+----------------------+<br>";
}
else {
    while($tmp!=".\r\n") {
        $tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 4096);
        $article = $article.$tmp;
    }

    echo "+----------------------+<br>";
    echo "Article $boucle\n";
    echo "+----------------------+<br>";
    echo "$article<br>";
}    

$boucle++;

}
fclose($usenet_handle);

Anon

I found the error:

this line...
fputs($usenet_handle, "ARTICLE $boucle ");

should be...
fputs($usenet_handle, "ARTICLE $boucle\n");

How stupid of me :-))