mail() problem with duplicate messages

rob76

Hi,

When I use the mail() function as per the following example. For some reason it sends the message twice. Sometimes the second copy is blank.

I always seem to have this problem and can see no reason why this should happen and am beginning to wonder whether this is a browser issue or similar.

Any help would be appreciated.

$subject="Thank you for your e-mail";

$msg = "Dear ".$name.",\n\n";
$msg .= "Thank you for your e-mail.\n\n";
$msg .= "This is an automatic reply to let you know that we have received your message and will reply as soon as possible.\n\n";
$msg .= "Best Regards\n";
$msg .= "Customer Service Team\n";

$to=$email;
$mailheaders = "From: Customer Service<>\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: cs@xyz.com";
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$mailheaders);

rob76

Here's some more info...

I've done some further testing and the problem seems to be due to some javascript on the enquiry form page. I have two pages..

enquiry-form.php
(visitor inputs their details)
Here's the opening form tag

<form name="contact" method="post" action="send-enquiry.php" onSubmit="return validate_contact()">

AND

send-enquiry.php
(the script in my original post)

return validate_contact() calls a javascript function which validates the visitors input. If I delete the line "return validate_contact()" the problem seems to go away.

I realise that this may now be a javascript problem rather than a PHP problem but if anyone can offer any further help on this please let me know.

vaaaska

Why don't you validate on the php end of things instead? Especially for an email form, it's a very good practice.

Frederick

Not sure if you have a redirect after the mail() function, but try this so the script only runs once.

<?php
// your code
header("Location: index.php");
exit;
?>