Software Trends In Usenet Gateway Scripts

Posted on October 12, 2011 by webmaster

Usenet gateway acts as the medium of portraying newsgroup to the web. Many scripts and software is available which allows users to read as well as post Usenet messages using a web browser. The Usenet gateway software has lots of features and mostly uses MySQL for their database. The scripts are written in PHP and support thus MySQL in the backend. Some of the best free and commercial PHP Usenet gateway scripts are listed below:

This script is written in PHP and allows users to post messages to the Usenet through their web browser. The Web2Mail2News script supports only posting and is not a newsreader. PHP 4 or newer version is needed for this script.

This package can be used to retrieve newsgroup articles from NNTP servers. There is a generic NNTP class that can retrieve listings of groups, listing of group articles and the articles headers and bodies. There are other classes that can retrieve listing of groups from several different sites and insert the listings on a MySQL database table. Other classes can retrieve groups stored in the database and retrieve articles of those groups from the NNTP servers.

Headliner is a PHP component which provides a web-based portal to usenet news. Features include search, archives, marking of read messages, RSS feed, non-usenet (local) groups..

A Usenet news client which has an interface that is completely web based. This script is written in PHP4 and has a database in the backend. All the messages from subscribed public newsgroups are portrayed in the database. Features include search functions, statistics on users, etc. Users also have the facility to save their articles.

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Software Trends In URL Submitters Scripts

Posted on October 10, 2011 by webmaster

The increasing competition in the web space has made it essential for the websites to get them heard and to be seen by their target audience. For this it is necessary to reach out to them in a short time span, which is possible only when the URLs of the websites are submitted in various search engines and in other places across the web. The role of the URL submitters comes into play with this requirement. There are numerous URL submitter scripts and software packages which submit the URLs very quickly. Here is a quick look at a few of the URL submitter scripts which can be useful for website owners.

As the name suggests, this script is used to run a website promotion service which is web-based only and automated. The promotion tools available can be used by the customers or clients when they log-in in the client area. An admin area is also there. The customers can be charged monthly for using this software thus generating revenue also.

Large batches of URLs can be submitted using the BatchSubmit software. This is a quite affordable way to submit the URLs to top six search engines which in turn spread it to other search engines by sharing the data with them. A detailed result of the submissions is shown. Fast and efficient execution is possible with the use of sockets.

The Castor is a good webmaster tool of PHP which can be used to submit an URL to several search engines through a web interface.

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