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POMySQL INSERT automatically adding duplicate rows
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    copied!<p>I'm trying to update a database using html form + jquery + php</p> <p>When I click on the Submit button on the form it works but it is adding <strong>two same records</strong> in the database for each click.</p> <p>I can't find out what is going wrong and therefore I'm posting the whole script I'm using here. If anyone can find the problem then please point it out.</p> <p>Here are the scripts I'm using</p> <p><strong>HTML</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="result" class="results"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;form id="person-form" class="person-form" method="post"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a new member&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;label for="Name" &gt;Name&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="name" value="Enter the Name, 55 char max." /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;label for="email"&gt;Email&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="email" value="Enter the email" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;label for="subscribe"&gt;Subscribe&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" name="subscribe" value="Yes" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Add member" id="add-member" class="add-member"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>jQuery</strong></p> <pre><code>$("#add-url").live("click", function() { var name = $('input[name=name]').val(); var email = $('input[name=email]').val(); var subs = $('input[name=subscribe]:checkbox:checked').val(); var data = 'name='+name+'&amp;email='+email+'&amp;subs='+subs; $.post(add_member_script.ajaxurl, data, function(data) { $('#results').html(data); }); return false; }); </code></pre> <p><strong>And PHP</strong></p> <pre><code>$connect = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD); if (!$connect){ die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connect); if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email'])){ echo 'enter some value'; } else { if($_POST['subs']== 'yes') { $sql="INSERT INTO $table (name, email, subs) VALUES ('$_POST[name]','$_POST[email]','$_POST[subs]')"; } else { $sql="INSERT INTO $table (name, email) VALUES ('$_POST[name]','$_POST[email]')"; } if (!mysql_query($sql,$con)){ mysql_error(); } else { list_links_table (); } mysql_close($con); die(); } </code></pre>
 

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