Description

Connect and authenticate to a specific newsserver

Parameter

• $user - Username to authenticate

• $pass - Password to authenticate

• $host - Hostname of the NNTP-server

• $port - Port, where the newsserver listens

• $authmode - Type of authentication, at the moment only NET_NNTP_AUTHORIGINAL

Return value

boolean - Returns TRUE on success, PEAR_Error on failure.

Throws

Note

since 0.3

This function can not be called statically.

See

Net_NNTP::connect() Net_NNTP::quit(),

Example

require_once "Net/NNTP.php";

$nntp = new Net_NNTP;
$ret = $nntp->connectAuthenticated("news.php.net");
if( PEAR::isError($ret)) {
 // handle error
} else {
 // success
}