Net_NNTP::post()

Net_NNTP::post() -- post a message

Synopsis

      require_once 'Net/NNTP.php';

string Net_NNTP::post ( string $subject , string $newsgroup , string $from , string $body , string $additional )

Description

Post a message to a news server

Parameter

$subject - Subject of the message
$newsgroup - Post to this newsgroup
$from - EMail adress of sender
$body - Body of the message
$additional - String of headers to add

Return value

string - Server response

Throws

Possible PEAR_Error values

Error code	Error message	Reason	Solution
NULL	`"Not connected"`	You forgot the set up a connection to a news server or the connection was already again closed.	Open a connection before using post(). Check the connection status before using post().

Note

This function can not be called statically.

Warning

post() doesn't care about character encoding of subject and body. Make sure to set correct headers, if you are using non ASCII-127 characters.

Example

Using post()

      
<?php
...

$subject   = "Testpost";
$newsgroup = "php.test";
$body      = "Le Mardi 12 f=E9vrier 2002, this is a test message using special french chars";
$from      = "test@example.com";
$addheader = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n".
             "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;";

$response = $nntp->post($subject, $newsgroup, $from, $body, $addheader);
...
?>