Re: Re: mail() is duplicating

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 22:54 -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > on 03/13/2009 05:37 PM Rick Pasotto said the following: > > I have several forms on my site that use the same sequence of events: > > The first script displays and validates the form data, the second > > reformats and asks for confirmation or editing, and the third script > > sends the data in an email to the relevent people. > > > > Two of these forms work exactly as they're supposed to but the third > > sends duplicate emails to everyone. > > > > I have looked and looked and I've run diff and I can see no reason why > > this should be happening. > > > > Could someone suggest what I might have wrong? > > Usually this happens when you have a To: header in the headers parameters. > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > Find and post PHP jobs > http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ > Another possibility is that the mail sending is triggered from a page that is called from a get request rather than post. Some browsers actually make more than one call when the page is get, thereby triggering the duplicate mail creation. I had a similar thing with a database update once before, it's a bugger to be rid of without switching to post. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk