Re: [PHP] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] 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/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail() is duplicating
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/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
