Importing Posts?

I thought I might be able to mimic the submission of a post from the post form using the code at this site:

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/mimocsumissions.php?article=mimocsumissions&kind=sl&id=19644&open=1&anc=0&view=1#notes

I have used it with success before. Doesn’t seem to be working in this case.

So is there a way I can simply call the write_post function and pass it the data or will that fail?

thanks,

brian