PHP - Not Triggering If Statement

Hello,

I have been banging my head against the walla and trouble shooting this for days now. It seems so simple, yet there is something going on that I can't figure out. Thanks so much in advance for the help

I am currently limiting comments and replies to comments on my social network. I have successfully done so except on the replies for one page, I can not get php to display an error with a simple if statement that should be firing when the submit button is hit.

It's important to know that I have TWO pages being used. The main structural page and then the content page that is included in the structural page.

Here is the code:

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[code]if(isset($_POST['sub_comment_reply'])) {
if($_POST['reply'] == "" ) {
$valid = false;
$error_msgs_reply[] = "Whoops! You forgot to write your reply.";
}else{

$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `CysticAnswers_replies`
              WHERE `FromUserID` = $auth->id
                AND `date` = CURDATE()";
    $result = mysql_query($query, $connection);
    $post_count = mysql_result($result, 0);
$max_reply_per_day = 5;
$error_msgs_replies_max[] = "Whoops! You have reached your limit of replies for the day.";




    if($post_count >= $max_reply_per_day){
$valid = false;

    }
    else
    {
$query = "INSERT INTO `CysticAnswers_replies`
( `QuestionCommentID`,
  `FromUserID`,
  `comment`,
  `status`,
  `date`,
  `time`
    ) VALUES (

'" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['comment']) ."',
'" . $auth->id ."',
'" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['reply'])."',
'active',
'" . date("Y-m-d") . "',
'" . date("G:i:s") . "')";

mysql_query($query, $connection);



}

// this is from the page that is included, to echo the error but the if is not triggering
<?php if(isset($_POST['sub_comment_reply']) && $post_count >= $max_reply_per_day && $valid = false) {


foreach($error_msgs_replies_max as $msg) { ?>
<div id="error_x">
<?php echo $msg; ?>
</div>
<?php }
}?>[/code]

is it possible to get an ajax call to execute a php script that will continue running even if the user leaves my site?  i have used cron jobs and tokens to do in past but this can result in 1 min delay.

can someone please help me with this
I'm trying to make it so that when the page loads
just the condition below will happend unless the if statment happends.

so I need two if statments that work off of one condition? so i was thinking of using OR
but i would need a if statement that says the page is being loaded

what this code does it displays someones profile when search is hit
but i want it to display the persons own profile soon as the page is loaded first






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<?php
if(isset($_POST['search'])) {

// searches goaulds then displays them
$search3 = "SELECT goauld,id FROM users WHERE goauld='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['goaulds'])."'"; 
$search2 = mysql_query($search3) or die(mysql_error());
WHILE($search1 = mysql_fetch_array($search2)){ 

$grab_goauld = $search1['goauld'];

echo '<table width="300" height="5" border="1" align="center">';
  echo '<th><center>Goauld Statistics</center></th>';
  
   echo "<tr><td height='340'>$grab_goauld</td></tr>";
   
    }
}
  echo '</table>';
  
?>

First of all, I apologize for my "newbieness" in advance.  I've got a form processing script that is working fine except for one section of code, snippets of which is shown below:

          //default values
          $formResponse = "How are you really doing?  Use this to find out!";
          $imgSource = "blue.png";

				If ($country == "United States") {
						//US zip code query
						$sql = "SELECT location, revParData FROM zipData WHERE zipCode = '$zipCode' LIMIT 1";
						mysql_select_db('db');
						$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
						if(! $retval ) {
							$formResponse = "It looks like you entered an invalid zip code. Please try again!";
							$imgSource = "yellow.png";
						} else {
									$sql = "SELECT location, revParData FROM zipData WHERE zipCode = '$zipCode' LIMIT 1";
									mysql_select_db('db');
									$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );

									while($row = mysql_fetch_array($retval, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
										$location = $row['location'];
										$revParData = $row['revParData'];
									}
						}

What I thought would happen is this:   If the zip code entered by the end user does not exist in the table, the $formResponse and $imgSource values would be the "... invalid zip code" and "yellow.png" values. If a valid zip code is entered, it completes the second query. In fact, it works fine if a zip code that exists in the table is entered, but shows the default values for $formResponse and $imgSource if a zip code that doesn't exist in the database is entered.   I can't figure out why it is doing this... if anyone can point out my coding error, it would be appreciated.   Cheers! Mike    

I'm having issues with the following:

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<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['username']=$_POST['username'];
$_SESSION['password']=$_POST['password'];
if($_SESSION['username']=="username" && $_SESSION['password']=="password"){
if($_GET['product']=="add"){
$content.='
<p><label>Product Name:</label> <input type="text" name="product_name" size="30" />
<label>Product Price:</label> <input type="text" name="product_price" size="5" />
</p>
<p><label>Product Category:</label> <input type="text" name="product_category" size="30" /></p>
<p><label>Product Link:</label> <input type="text" name="product_link" size="30" /></p>
<p><label>Product Image:</label> <input type="text" name="product_image" size="30" /></p>
<p><label>Product Tag:</label> <input type="text" name="product_tag" size="30" /></p>
<p><label>Product Keywords:</label> <input type="text" name="keyword" size="30" /></p>
<p><label>Product Features:</label><br />
<textarea name="product_features" rows="10" cols="60"></textarea>
</p>
<p><label>Product Pros:</label><br />
<textarea name="product_pros" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>
</p>
<p><label>Product Cons:</label><br />
<textarea name="product_cons" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>
</p>
<p><label>Product Description:</label><br />
<textarea name="product_description" rows="10" cols="60"></textarea>
</p>
<p><label>Product Notes:</label><br />
<textarea name="product_notes" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>
</p>
';
$logout='<div><a href="./acp_admincp.php?log-out">Log-Out</a></div>';
}
elseif($_GET['product']=="view"){
}
else{
$content.='
<a href="./admincp.php?product=add">Add New Product</a>
<br />
<a href="./admincp.php?product=view">View Products</a>
';
}
}
elseif(isset($_GET['log-out'])){
session_start();
session_unset();
session_destroy();
header("Location: ./admincp.php");
}
else{
$content='
<form action="./admincp.php" method="post">
<p><label>Username:</label> <input type="text" name="username" size="30" />';
$content.='</p>
<p><label>Password:</label> <input type="password" name="password" /></p>';
$content.='<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit" /></p>
</form>';
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<base href="http://ghosthuntersportal.com/" />
<title>Ghost Hunter's Portal - Admin Control Panel</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="ghost, hunters, hunter, ghosts, spirit, spirits, paranormal, investigation, investigator, investigators, k2, emf, meter, kii" />
<meta name="description" content="Ghost Hunters Potal. Parnormal research equipment store." />
<meta name="author" content="Andrew McCarrick" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow"
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<img src="./logo.png" alt="Ghost Hunter's Portal Admin Control Panel" />
<br />
<div style="color: #AA44AA; font-size: 26px; margin-top: -30px; margin-left: 125px;">Admin Control Panel</div>
<?php
echo $logout;
echo $content;
?>
</body>
</html>

I can log-in, and get to the page with the two links on it. However, once I click one of the links it falls back to the log-in page, and it ends up being a never ending loop.

It's doing this:
Log-In --> Page with links ---> Log-In page again

Should be doing this:
Log-In --> Page with links --> Add Product page or View Products page

I can never get into the the actual sub page.

Just to be clear, the address bar actually shows product=add or product=view, but it still shows the log-in page.