Perl Insert into Thread

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Without spending too much time reviewing every aspect of the new thread creation. I want to create a perl script that will insert new threads.

Can someone explain to me the INSERT statement to do this?

For example, creating a new thread, is it simply a few inserts / updates or is there more?

I just need a very basic function and the only thing really is to create a new thread. Becuase of the needs, this has to be done in perl so I imagine that just having the inserts.

I know in PHP, vBulletin has a hook for creating new threads but being that it's mysql driven, there should be just a few sql calls, right?