I was thinking of doing it with C++ and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) since I've been using those languages and libraries. I just need somebody to write a hack (since I'm not familar with vBulletin and only heard about it yesterday) that would allow me to call the "message notification check" page with the following spec:

File: NewMsgCheck.php

Inputs (via POST method):

$TimeCheck - return new topics since that timestamp.

Output (print to the screen no HTML headers or anything):

[Number of new topics to return]
[The new topic's title][newline]
[URL for the new topic]

This should be pretty simple to do. It will just be real simple for now to get things going, and other stuff can be added on later. If somebody could hack this up and e-mail me a link to the page to test the program on then I would appreciate it since I don't have vBulletin installed or know of anyone that does have it. Thanks.

Pros Chum
pros@codeedu.com