Automated Posting?

[Flare]

Hi folks,

I hope this is the right forum for this, but here's what I want to do and I'm not exactly sure how to go about it.

I have a private forum that I use for various informational items for my users. All the information I need posted, I store in a MySQL database that I collect from forms that are filled out.

Now, I have this info in the database, but I would like to automatically post it to my vB forums. The databases are on two seperate machines, so injecting the data into the vB database manually would be problematical from a security standpoint (this was the first option I looked at).

What I would like to do is use something like wget (wput?) or even write a custom PHP app that will post a formatted message under my user account to my forums on a sheduled basis (IE - I would setup a cron job).

I can do a lot of things in PHP, but posting to a private forum that requires authentication is a mystery to me. My problem mainly is, I don't even know where to begin with doing something like this, and I was hoping ya'll could shed some light on that.

Thanks,

Flare