headers, include() & css strangeness

fizzwizz

I have a small problem that is causing yet more greyness.

I have a main index web page. In the head of this page I have a small script that reads, increments by one, and then sets a cookie. (just a simple visits per browser script)

Also within the page I have an include statement

include $select.".php";

so I can include a selected page (#?select=home .. etc)

What I have noticed is that when the page included contains a reference to a style (eg <span class="mystyle"></span>) the counter increments twice. This along with other clues suggests the headers are read twice.

If the included page is plain classless text it increments once as it should.

Does anyone understand what is happening and how to prevent this?

Thanks ... Fizz

drawmack

try using include_once instead of include. My guess is that your counter is being called inside the selected script.

fizzwizz

Hi
Thanks for the input
That was my initial thought too. But the included script is just formatted text. (using css)
without using css tags it works ok
The include_once() didnt cure it
Any other ideas?

tsinka

Hi,

please post some code. It's hard to say anything without the code.

Thomas

fizzwizz

Hi Thomas

Here is the main parts of the code.

//This is above the <HTML> tags
$cookie=$select."cookie";
$cookievalue=$$cookie;
$cookievalue++;
setcookie ("$cookie", $cookievalue, time()+40000000);

//This is in the <body>
include_once "pages/".$select.".php";

Just guessing here, but isn't this issue something to do with how an included page references the style sheet?

Thanks again ... Fizz

fizzwizz

The CSS might have been a red herring. It seems to do this all the time.

What could cause the code to be read twice? could it be because a page is included?

tsinka

Hi,

the CSS shouldn't be the problem. PHP is a server side language that just ignores anything that is not PHP.

Does the page that get's included contain any code that might increase the counter, too ? Or does it include another script that does something with the cookie ?

Thomas

fizzwizz

I wonder if the problem is client side.
I am using a wireless connection here and sometimes pages are slow to respond even though its a fast connection.

I stripped everything out of the page piece by piece. I basically left myself a short script to insert a new row into mySQL. It kept making a double entry until I removed a java applet then all seemed well.

I'm not sure about connection protocols, but is it possible by browser is requesting the page twice faced with a large applet to download?

Brain storming now!

.. Thanks again ... Fizz

tsinka

Hi,

can you post that short script including the HTML code that loads the applet ?

Thomas