PHP - Blogger Problem With Reciprocal Script

Well this problem has occurred a lot.
 
I try to put ". $_GET['site'] ." or ". $_POST['site'] ." in my script and i get a server errror when trying t access my page ( error connecting the page basically)


Here is the part of the script which that is occuring to:
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            if($_GET['step'] == 2)
            {
               echo 'Just adding INCLUDE files';
                                        exec('xcopy /X/ / ". $_GET['site'] ." / /e/i', $a, $a1);  <---- This line
               echo '<form action="install.php?step=3&guid='. $my_guid .'" method="post">';
               echo '<input type="submit" value="Continue">';
               echo '</form>';
            }



When i try using the $_GET function or $_POST functions in alot of stuff it just shows an server error(error connecting the page on my browser)

Someone please help!

Previously, the PHP codebase I was using was that written by others, and I used their code to tinker with so I could get an understanding how PHP works.
Now that I am comfortable using PHP, I have written my own short PHP script from scratch with the aim of it seeing my newsletter system functioning at minimal, for the first time.
The newsletters system is made with HTML/PHP/MySQL.

I am having a problem with the PHP side of things where I am getting an error:
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PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF on line 50

... which is:
Code: [Select]
if $_POST['action'] == 'Register' {
I am hoping someone that knows allot about PHP could take a look at my code and see whats wrong with it?

PHP code within confirm.html:
Code: [Select]
<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'testusr', 'testpw');
mysql_select_db('testdb', $link);
$email = $_POST['e-mail'];
$query = 
if $_POST['action'] == 'Register' {
if $_POST['newsletter'] == 'Mens' {
"INSERT INTO newsletters(mens) VALUES('$email')";
}
elseif $_POST['newsletter'] == 'Mens & Womens' {
"INSERT INTO newsletters(mensandwomens) VALUES('$email')";
}
elseif $_POST['newsletter'] == 'Womens' {
"INSERT INTO newsletters(womens) VALUES('$email')";
}
;}
mysql_query ($link, $query);
mysql_close($link);
?>
HTML FORM code within index.html:
Code: [Select]
<FORM action="confirm.html" method="post">
<DIV>
<SPAN class="input">
Action:
<SELECT name="action">
<OPTION>Register</OPTION>
<OPTION>Unregister</OPTION>
</SELECT>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp
E-mail: <INPUT name="e-mail" type="text"></INPUT>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp
Newsletter:
<SELECT name="newsletter">
<OPTION>Mens</OPTION>
<OPTION>Mens & Womans</OPTION>
<OPTION>Womens</OPTION>
</SELECT>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp
<INPUT class="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</SPAN>
</DIV>
</FORM>

if ($action == "discussion") {

if ($_POST['comment'] == "") {

echo "<p align=center>Sorry your comment was not posted due to the comment being blank. You will be redirected in a few seconds so please try again</p>
<p align=center>If you have not returned to your page <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id]>Click Here</a>";
echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=15;URL=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id] />";
include("bottom.php");
exit;
}

if (isset($_POST) && !empty($_POST)) 
{
    if (isset($_SESSION['posttimer']))
    {
        if ( (time() - $_SESSION['posttimer']) <= 10)
        {
echo "<p align=center><b>Bit of a problem here, Double Post attempt has been found. Don't worry we stopped it.</b></p>";
echo "<p align=center>If you have not returned to your page <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id]>Click Here</a>";
echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=15;URL=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id] />";
        }
        else
        {

$sumscore = $row[score] + 2;
$sumcomments = $row[comments] + 1;

$con=mysqli_connect("DETAILS FOR SQL STUFF IN HERE BUT DELETED FOR PURPOSES OF THE FORUM");
 
 if (mysqli_connect_errno())
   {
   echo "<p align=center>Failed to connect to MySQL: </p>" . mysqli_connect_error();
   }

 $sql="INSERT INTO comments (userid, topicid, category, topicname, comment, date, name, address, avatar)
 VALUES
 ('$row[id]','$content[id]','blogs','$content[topic]','$_POST[comment]','$today','$row[name]','http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id]', '$row[cavatar]')";

 if (!mysqli_query($con,$sql))
   {
   die('Error: ' . mysqli_error($con));
   }

mysql_query("INSERT INTO notifications (userid, username, nuser, message, address, date, time)
 VALUES
 ('$row[id]','$row[name]','$content[postedid]','$row[name] has commented on your Blog','http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$who','$today', '$time')") or die(mysql_error());


mysql_query("UPDATE userdb SET comments='$sumcomments', score='$sumscore' WHERE username='$_SESSION[username]'") or die(mysql_error());

echo "<p align=center>Your comment has been submitted. You should be redirected back to your page in a few seconds</p>
<p align=center>If you have not returned to your page <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id]>Click Here</a>";
echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=2;URL=http://www.sentuamessage.com/blog.php?who=$content[id] />";

mysqli_close($con);
}
    }
    $_SESSION['posttimer'] = time();
}
include("bottom.php");
exit;
}

I am rattling my brain here. I had added a code into my script to get rid of double posts, it has a timer which stops people double posting within 10 seconds.   Though since inserting the code you have an error where you will have to double post the same post because instead of inserting the post content into the database the submit button comes back with a blank result.   Why is this happening? (blank result instead of saying "post successfully posted etc." or "post not posted" it just comes up blank with no entry going into the database. This results in you having to re type your comment and re submit it hoping second time lucky)   This is my code once the submit has been hit.    

here is the basic script . i use this script for  edit html or text file.
<?php 

$action=$_POST['action']; 
$textarea=$_POST['textarea']; 

if($_GET['p']){ 
$page=$_GET['p']; 
} 

// Assume your text pages are called, p1.db or p2.db, etc. 
$url = "p".$page.".html"; 
if (file_exists($url)) { 
// do nothing 
} else { 
$url = "p0.txt"; 
} 

// where to go back to after the edit ... 
$return="page.php?p=$page"; 

// Get page 
$data = implode("", file($url));  

if($action=="save"){ 
$newtext=stripslashes($textarea); 
$newtext = str_replace("<?", "", $newtext); 
$newtext = str_replace("?>", "", $newtext); 
$newtext = nl2br($newtext); 
//echo "page: $url<br><br>\n"; 
//echo $newtext; 
$fh = fopen($url, 'w') or die("can't open file"); 
fwrite($fh, $newtext); 
fclose($fh);  
header ("location: edit.php?p=$page"); 
} 
else{ 
echo" 
<html> 
<head><title>Simple Text Editor</title> 
<style> 
body,html{ 
margin:0px auto; 
width:700px; 
text-align:center; 
} 
#content{ 
margin:0px auto; 
width:700px; 
} 
#middle h1 { 
    color: transparent; 
    font-family:georgia; 
    font-size:12pt; 
    margin:0; 
    color: #dF9100; 
    padding:10px 0px 15px 0px; 
    text-align:left; 
} 
</style> 
<body> 
<div id='content'> 
"; 

$ta=br2nl($data); 

echo" 
<a href='$return'><-- Return to Page</a><br /><br /> 
Make Changes and click \"Save Changes\" at the very bottom ...<br /> 
<form action='edit.php' method='post'> 
<input type='hidden' name='action' value='save'> 
<input type='hidden' name='p' value='$page'> 
<input type='hidden' name='n' value='$n'> 
<textarea name='textarea' rows='25' cols='80'>$ta</textarea> 
<br /> 
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Save Changes'> 
</form> 

<div id='middle' style='width:680px; text-align:left; padding-left:20px; border:1px solid #ccc;'> 
</div> 
</div> 
</body> 
</html> 
"; 
} 

function br2nl($str) { 
return preg_replace('=<br */?>=i', "", $str); 
} 

?> 
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the script is running fine.

but when i intregate tinymce with the script..
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>abeer cms</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
// General options
mode : "textareas",
theme : "advanced",
plugins : "safari,spellchecker,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,imagemanager,filemanager",

// Theme options
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
theme_advanced_buttons4 : "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,spellchecker,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,blockquote,pagebreak,|,insertfile,insertimage",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
theme_advanced_resizing : true,

// Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
content_css : "css/example.css",

// Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
template_external_list_url : "js/template_list.js",
external_link_list_url : "js/link_list.js",
external_image_list_url : "js/image_list.js",
media_external_list_url : "js/media_list.js",

// Replace values for the template plugin
template_replace_values : {
username : "Some User",
staffid : "991234"
}
});
</script>

</head>

<body>
<?php 

$action=$_POST['action']; 
$textarea=$_POST['textarea']; 

if($_GET['p']){ 
$page=$_GET['p']; 
} 

// Assume your text pages are called, p1.db or p2.db, etc. 
$url = "p".$page.".html"; 
if (file_exists($url)) { 
// do nothing 
} else { 
$url = "p0.html"; 
} 

// where to go back to after the edit ... 
$return="edit.php?p=$edit"; 

// Get page 
$data = implode("", file($url));  

if($action=="save"){ 
$newtext=stripslashes($textarea); 
$newtext = str_replace("<?", "", $newtext); 
$newtext = str_replace("?>", "", $newtext); 
$newtext = nl2br($newtext); 
//echo "page: $url<br><br>\n"; 
//echo $newtext; 
$fh = fopen($url, 'w') or die("can't open file"); 
fwrite($fh, $newtext); 
fclose($fh);  
header ("location: edit.php?p=$page"); 
} 
else{ 
echo" 
<html> 
<head><title>Simple Text Editor</title> 
<style> 
body,html{ 
margin:0px auto; 
width:700px; 
text-align:center; 
} 
#content{ 
margin:0px auto; 
width:700px; 
} 
#middle h1 { 
    color: transparent; 
    font-family:georgia; 
    font-size:12pt; 
    margin:0; 
    color: #dF9100; 
    padding:10px 0px 15px 0px; 
    text-align:left; 
} 
</style> 
<body> 
<div id='content'> 
"; 

$ta=br2nl($data); 

echo" 
<a href='$return'><-- Return to Page</a><br /><br /> 
Make Changes and click \"Save Changes\" at the very bottom ...<br /> 
<form action='edit.php' method='post'> 
<input type='hidden' name='action' value='save'> 
<input type='hidden' name='p' value='$page'> 
<input type='hidden' name='n' value='$n'> 
<textarea name='textarea' rows='25' cols='80'>$ta</textarea> 
<br /> 
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Save Changes'> 
</form> 

<div id='middle' style='width:680px; text-align:left; padding-left:20px; border:1px solid #ccc;'> 
</div> 
</div> 
</body> 
</html> 
"; 
} 

function br2nl($str) { 
return preg_replace('=<br */?>=i', "", $str); 
} 

?> 
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</body>
</html>


the script show error message after clicking the save button. the error message is
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\wamp\www\edit.php:6) in c:\wamp\www\edit.php on line 78

can any one help regarding this issue?