Thanks to both Tuk4 and Dismounted. Both of your suggestions were of help.
We went with the cURL option since the 2nd script was already designed for "get" instead of "post" parameters. Here is the code that works for us:
PHP Code:
$send_forum = $variable;
$send_days = 21;
$do = "run";
$send_url = "http://vb.com/script.php?do=$do&forum=$send_forum&days=$send_days";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,"$send_url");
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
Thanks again. -- Rik