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[neoxx]

Reason I am asking is because I'm working on a project for a baseball simulation league. The person in charge of the actual sim posts updates to the forum about what is going on in the game. In order to post the updates they have to switch to their web browser and go through the whole process of posting, during this time the game is paused which results in the simulation taking way longer then it really should.

So I'm trying to figure out if there already is a program, or if you could use the concept of a forum spammer to remotely post to a forum from your desktop. So in theory, the simmer could be typing the post as the game is being simmed, and then press a button to have the program post the text into a certain thread.

I don't know what keywords to use to try and search for this so sorry if it's a double post, but any help is appreciated. This would be my first time venturing into the world of programming(if that's the proper term), so be gentle with me.

[Alexander]

PHP can handle POST data from anywhere. Imagine what I'm posting now, all it is doing is telling the browser to send POST data to "/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=30993" with the contents of the message box, more or less.

The client program would need to authenticate itself (log in, etc.) and then just send what it needs to, to whatever handles the posts. The program would simply need to plug in the details (thread ID etc.), although this requires a bit of work.