I've been wanting to get a newsgroup injector/gateway for phpBB going for a while now.
I looked at usenetgrab, but its designed for use with Phorum.
I was looking around the 'net for a phpbb solution ready made when I stumbled across some code for vBulletin.
You can check out the vBulletin announcement here.
So I bit the bullet and grabbed the vBulletin code and hacked the needed bits from it.
Producing (TA DA!) a working newsgateway for phpBB
Download v 1.0 here. - no
bi-directional support, incoming only. Download v 1.1 here. - added full
bi-directional support for posts, threading, the lot. Download v 1.2 here. - added image
decoding and displaying support. NEW make your phpbb newsgroups available as newsgroups NEW
I've not done much with either of these for a while, and it could require some tweaks to get going. NOTE: I've left all the vBulletin code there for your viewing pleasure, and frankly was so good that I have
mostly just dumbed it down, hardcoded a bunch of parameters and changed the sql statements to support the slightly different table formats to work with phpBB There is a phpBB-INSTALL.txt file, and you can even view the source directly newsgrab.pl if you want, but there are some SQL files in the archive you'll need to get it going properly.
If you make any changes, please send them through to me (simon@iseek.ws) so I can add the to the archive!!
Tested with phpBB 1.4.2, phpBBPlus 1.4.2 2.02
Would probably work with phpnuke, postnuke, nukeaddon etc, but haven't tried that yet.