PHP - Csv To Php Heck I Don't Know...

this is so frustrating. i know my coding isnt wrong. the most basic form doesnt even work (always).

formp1.php
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<form method="post" action="formp2.php">
<input type="text" name="text" id="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>

formp2.php
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<?php echo $_POST['text']; ?>
heres the thing it works SOMETIMES. i send the form and it shows. i go back and do it again and it doesnt. another time it shows another time it doesnt. all the same text input to. i put the number 1.

what could possibly do this? its not my browser i tried 2 different browsers. it makes no sense what so ever someone give me something PLEASE

Hi,
I'm new to php and just trying to make sense of things by trying stuff. I'm trying to make a very rudimentary CMS where form values are added to a mysql database. One of the inputs in the form ($body) is a textarea. I've messed around with this but there's a glitch somewhere-when I press the submit button I just get a blank page (the page for the form processing script). My guess is there's something not right with the "safety measures" I'm taking: trim,stripslashes,etc. Any help would be appreciated

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<?php
session_start();
if(!isset($_POST['Submit'])){
header("Location: home_manage.php");
exit();
}
else{

$headline=$_POST['headline'];
$author=$_POST['author'];
$body=$_POST['body'];
$headline=trim($headline);
$author=trim($author);
$body=trim($body);
$message=array(); 
if((strlen($headline)!=0)&&(strlen($author)!=0)&&(strlen($body)!=0)){
$time=time();
$date=date('Y-m-d H:i:s',$time);
$headline=strip_tags($headline);
$author=strip_tags($author);
$body="<p>".$body."</p>";
$order=array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
$replace='</p><p>';
$body=str_ireplace($order,$replace,$body);
$body=strip_tags($body,'<p><br />');
   if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())
    {
$headline=stripslashes($headline);
$author=stripslashes($author);
$body=stripslashes($body);
}
$headline=htmlentities(mysql_real_escape_string($headline));
$author=htmlentities(mysql_real_escape_string($author));
$body=htmlentities(mysql_real_escape_string($body));
require('storage.inc');
$link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$db_password);
$db = mysql_select_db($post_database,$link);
$query= "INSERT INTO entry (entry_date,entry_head,entry_author,entry_text) VALUES ('$date','$headline','$author','$body')";
mysql_query($query);
$message[]="<p class='announce'><b>Post titled ".$headline." has been added to the database.</b></p>";
}
else{
if(strlen($headline)<1){$message[]="<p class='announce'><b>You must include a headline for this post.</b></p>";}
if(strlen($author)<1){$message[]="<p class='announce'><b>You must include an author name for this post.</b></p>";}
if(strlen($body)<1){$message[]="<p class='announce'><b>You must include some body text for this post.</b></p>";}
}
$_SESSION['msg']['up_err']=implode($message);
header("Location: home_manage.php");
exit();
}

?>

Ok, I'm going start off simple. If I have to provide more code I will.

I am doing an update on a table called countries. Yet my query just will not update the db. Is there anything wrong with this query?

mysql_query("UPDATE countries SET country_id = '{$_POST['update_value']}' WHERE country_id = '{$_POST['original_html']}'") or die(mysql_error());