Re: Re: mail() is duplicating

Hello, on 03/17/2009 05:34 PM Ashley Sheridan 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. > 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. I suspect that may happen with nervous users that double click form submit buttons. Usually I use this forms class that has a built-in feature to show a form resubmit confirmation message when the use uses the submit function more than once: http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration That feature can be seen in this page: http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html?example=test_form -- 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/