Check for duplicates before inserting

Question

Before inserting into the database, I\'m using the following code to check for duplicates. To me, a duplicate is only considered a duplicate when name, de

Answer 1

As I see it your question can be broken down into 2 parts. Why is my PHP code not working? I don't know, don't know much PHP and other people seem to have just answered that :-). The second question is how can I check for duplicates? You're checking for duplicates the completely wrong way.

Create a unique index / primary key on your table. Then when you try to insert the DB will throw an error if there's a duplicate. Catch the error and deal with it how you want. Counting the number of records is definitely the wrong way to go and will be a significant detriment to the speed of your code.