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Need help with my code.

I have this code below, i need the bottom part not to display if there are to conditions that apply.
1. the submit button was hit
2. there are no messages to display look at it I know i should use some is statements but I can't seem to get them to work. Any help would be great thanks.

PHP:

<?php 
include "header.php";
include("include/common.php");

if($_POST["submit"]){
    field_validator("First Name", $_POST["first_name"], "alphanumeric", 4, 15);

    }
    if(empty($messages)) {
    $sql2 = "INSERT INTO customer (id, first_name) 
      VALUES (NULL, '$first_name')";

//start display
echo "Your information has been entered into the database.";

$query2 = "SELECT id, first_name FROM customer WHERE id LIKE '$id'";
$result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die("ERROR");
list($id, $first_name) =  mysql_fetch_row($result2);

echo "$first_name";

//end display

    }
}
?>
//*************************************************
// from here down should not display it the form was submitted and there are no messages to display.
//*************************************************
<TABLE width="540" BORDER="0">
<TR>
<TD align="CENTER" class="m">Signup To Become A Member</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
<TD>
<?php
if(!empty($messages)){ 
     displayErrors($messages);
echo "<h4>Make sure Gender & Newsletter are selected.</h4><br><br>";
}else{
echo "<center><br><H1>Signup To Become A Member</H1><br></center><br> ";
}

$serverdate = date("m-d-y");
?> 

  <table border="0" width="80%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
    <tr>
      <td>

         <FORM name="signup_cmo" ACTION="<? echo "$PHP_SELF"; ?>" METHOD=POST>
          <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="91%">
            <tr>
              <td bordercolor="#000000">First Name:</td><td><?php print $_POST[""] ?>
              &nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="text" name="first_name" value="<?php print $_POST["first_name"] ?>" size="20" class="text"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td><br><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" color: #000000; border: 1 solid #000000" class="button"></td><td>
              &nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2" color: #000000; border: 1 solid #000000" class="button"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              </form></tr></table> </div></td> </tr></table> 

</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
             </TD>
          </TR>
</TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>
<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

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We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

- Richard Dawkins

have you tried

Code:

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

instead of

Code:

if($_POST["submit"]){

??

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hm, for the buttons use the $_REQUEST[''] variable, the $_POST are only for the form`s elements

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The code works it's just that when you submit and it is successful it displays the bottom part again.

I need the bottom part of the code not to show up if the submit button was submitted and there are no messages. If there are messages to display then the bottom part is displayed, if the submit button was not hit then the bottom part is displayed.

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We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

- Richard Dawkins

maybe what you are looking for is exit(); ?

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Tried that if you use exit() it will stop the code in its tracks so if there are messages to be displayed then it wont display them because it exits.

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We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

- Richard Dawkins

PHP:

<?
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    // do whatever here
} else {
    // the bottom part
}
?>

note that i didn't look at your code.
(too long for me)

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