Net_NNTP::getOverview()

Net_NNTP::getOverview() -- fetch a number of message headers

Synopsis

      require_once 'Net/NNTP.php';

array Net_NNTP::getOverview ( string $first , string $last )

Description

Returns all message headers in a certain range of the current selected newsgroup

Parameter

$first - start message id, start of the range
$last - last message id, end of the range

Return value

array - a nested array indicated by the message id of the article, every entry contains the header as array


<?php
$msgs[message_id][headername] = headercontent
?>

Note

This function can not be called statically.

Warning

Be careful with choosing the range. It could requires some time to get a huge number of message headers.

See

Net_NNTP::getOverviewFmt()

Example

Using getOverview()

      
<?php
...
$ret = $nntp->connect("news.php.net");
if( PEAR::isError($ret)) {
 // handle error
} else {
 // print the last 10 messages
 $data = $nntp->selectGroup("php.pear.dev");
 $msgs = $nntp->getOverview( $data['last'] - 10, $data[last]);

 foreach($msgs as $msg) {
    // print subjects
    echo $msg['Subject'].'<br>';
 }
}
?>