Re: Weirdness

First of all, try with plain PHP script, without ANY html. There have been few bug reports about this kind of stuff and all were caused by bogus HTML. --Jani On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Ivo van Heel wrote: >Heyah. > >Sorry t' be botherin' ye, but I have some major weirdness going on, and it's >not so substantial as to call it a bug, so I thought to threw the issue at yer >feet and see what you (the knowledgable types) have to say about it. > >The application I'll be referring to is running with PHP 4.0.6 as a dynamic >Apache module with Apache 1.3.20 and Linux 2.2.12 (I know, it's ancient). > >I have reason to suspect that somehow, before the actual script gets processed, >PHP races through sections of code, in which it has nothing to do in the first >place, not outputting anything, which makes debugging quite difficult, but >executing the code nonetheless. > >What!? you say. That's quite a claim. Well, what happens is that after a >certain form post, TWO messages appear in the MySQL database. These DB actions >_always_ happen within the same DB class and within the same function. A few >lines with echo's only output stuff ONCE to the database. > >I am SURE that this function is called only once. Further more, one of the DB >fields is 100, where it should be 8, which the first database message has. This >value is used in only ONE script, which should not be included and DOES NOT get >included when submitting that form. That same script has numerous echo's, which >do NOT put anything on the screen, but changes in that script (such as >commenting out the call to the DB class that will insert the second message) >WILL "fix" it, that is, only one message will appear in the DB. > >If you understand my story, fire away with your criticism. I do have plenty of >experience developing with PHP, but this just does not compute. I am convinced >I can counter every rational response you provide. :) So that leaves: a bug in >PHP? > >