I don't use PHP if I can help it but in some cases I have too, in this case I needed a form to capture some information, wrap the results in some additional HTML and Microformats coding and then append it to a file so i could use PHP Include.
This took a lot of searching and testing for me to pull it off (Don't know PHP very well), but anyways here is the problem - When I submit the form it makes 2 records in the file, one that is blank (no form data) and the second record which has the proper information. Other than creating two records it works properly, what do i need to change for this to create only the record with the form data?
Note: My first thoughts were this:
action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>" was the cause of the duplication, but if that is the cause i don't know what to change it to for it to work properly.
PHP Code:
<?php
$Rname = $_POST["rname"];
$Rate = $_POST["rating"];
$Title = $_POST["title"];
$Sumr = $_POST["summary"];
$mnth = $_POST["month"];
$day = $_POST["day"];
$year = $_POST["year"];
?>
<form id="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
Reviewers Name:<input name="rname" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30">
<br>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="field">
<label for="rating">rating</label>
<select id="rating" name="rating">
<option/>
<option label="★" value="1">1</option>
<option label="★★" value="2">2</option>
<option label="★★★" value="3">3</option>
<option label="★★★★" value="4">4</option>
<option label="★★★★★" value="5">5</option>
</select>
<label id="summary-label" for="title">Title</label>
<input type="text" id="title" name="title"/><br>
<label id="summary-label" for="title">Review</label>
<textarea rows="10" cols="30" name="summary" id="summary"></textarea><br>
<label for="review-date-month">review date</label>
<select id="review-date-month" name="month">
<option value="01">Jan</option>
<option value="02">Feb</option>
<option value="03">Mar</option>
<option value="04">Apr</option>
<option value="05">May</option>
<option value="06">Jun</option>
<option value="07">Jul</option>
<option value="08">Aug</option>
<option value="09">Sep</option>
<option value="10">Oct</option>
<option value="11">Nov</option>
<option value="12">Dec</option>
</select>
<select id="review-date-day" name="day">
<option value="01">1</option>
<option value="02">2</option>
<option value="03">3</option>
<option value="04">4</option>
<option value="05">5</option>
<option value="06">6</option>
<option value="07">7</option>
<option value="08">8</option>
<option value="09">9</option>
<option value="10">10</option>
<option value="11">11</option>
<option value="12">12</option>
<option value="13">13</option>
<option value="14">14</option>
<option value="15">15</option>
<option value="16">16</option>
<option value="17">17</option>
<option value="18">18</option>
<option value="19">19</option>
<option value="20">20</option>
<option value="21">21</option>
<option value="22">22</option>
<option value="23">23</option>
<option value="24">24</option>
<option value="25">25</option>
<option value="26">26</option>
<option value="27">27</option>
<option value="28">28</option>
<option value="29">29</option>
<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="31">31</option>
</select>
<select id="review-date-year" name="year">
<option value="2004">2004</option>
<option value="2005">2005</option>
<option value="2006">2006</option>
<option value="2007">2007</option>
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2008</option>
<option value="2010">2008</option>
<option value="2011">2008</option>
<option value="2012">2008</option>
</select>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="submit" >
</form>
<?php
$myFile = "test.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "
<div class='tstyle'><img src='/images/testimonial-images/comingSoon.png' width='263' height='210' align='left' />
<div id='hreview' class='hreview'>
<h2 class='summary'>$Title</h2>
<abbr class='dtreviewed bold'>$mnth-$day-$year</abbr> by <span class='reviewer vcard'><span class='fn cgreen'>$Rname</span></span>
<span style='display: none;' class='type'>business</span><div class='item vcard hide'><span class='fn org'>Organization Here</span><div class='tel'>(###) ###-####</div><div class='adr'><div class='street-address'>Address Here</div><span class='locality'>City</span><span class='region'> ST</span>, <span class='postal-code'> ZIP</span></div></div>
<blockquote class='description'><p><abbr class='rating hide' title='$Rate'> $Rate out of 5 Stars</abbr>$Sumr</p></blockquote></div>
<p> </p><div class='fb-like' data-href='http://URL' data-send='false' data-width='335' data-show-faces='false' data-action='recommend'></div> </div>
<br />
";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>
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