Hi, I run a news portal called ThaSauce for the Game Music Arrangement Community and I'd like to start by saying I LOVE the Multi-headlines module. It's hands down the most handy little thing I've ever come across. I apologize if someone's brought this up before, and I'd just as well ask my own coding staff how possible/difficult it would be, but they'd likely just tell me "I don't know how Multi-headlines works" so I decided to go to the source.

We run a modified version of the default Php-Nuke news module as our mainpage, and use multi-headlines as a sidebar module.

However I've learned, given the nature of PHP nuke and user generated content, that if you have few users, or if the users you HAVE are lazy, very little actual news stories get posted to the main news module itself.

What I really want to do is have the Multi-headlines NOT ONLY auto-refresh and post to it's own module, but also submit new stories to the news module itself so that I can edit/moderate/post the ones I really want to spotlight on the mainpage itself, while still having all the other stuff on the side bar. Maybe just submitting certain news stories in a specific category. Maybe even being able to automatically suggesting categories for news based on the multi-headlines category.

Now I know that Multi-headlines stores all the stories it auto-refreshes to the database, but I don't know squat about PHP, and I haven't checked the tables for either the multi-headlines or the news in my database, and even if I were I'm not sure I'd be able to make sense of it. So my question is, based on the information already provided by the multi-headlines module, how difficult would it be to code a bot that automatically importants this same information and submits it via the news module?

Again, I apologize if this has been brought up before, and thanks in advance. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

So basicaly you want to import all[or some of them] the feeds brought to you by MH to your database as stories which further more will be handled as...news.
Yes this can be done relatively simple, but I think you missed something...Multiheadlines deals with feeds[RSS, ATOM, RDF formated].
Feeds are only summaries of the original article, from a remote site[although there are sites that choses to publish as feed the whole article].
So feed doesn't mean the whole article.
I've said already, in another post, that if you really want the have an "opinion"[...to be read... evaluate/rate/comment or submit to friend/print it] about an article, you should go to the original site and read the whole article.