I am newish to PHP and I seem to be having an issue with an insert statement that executes twice when I open this page to view a document. In the database the 2nd insert is 1 second later. It happens in google chrome only and on this page only. IE has no issue, I dont have firefox to check. view_document.php <?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/../includes/core.php'); require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/../includes/connect.php'); $webusername = $_SESSION['webname']; if (isset($_GET['document'])) { $ainumber = (int) $_GET['document']; if (!ctype_digit($_GET['document']) || !preg_match('~^[0-9]+$~',$_GET['document']) || !is_numeric($_GET['document'])) { $_SESSION = array(); session_destroy(); header('Location: login.php'); } else { $stmt = $connect->prepare("SELECT s_filename, s_reference FROM dmsmain WHERE s_ainumber = ?") or die(mysqli_error()); $stmt->bind_param('s', $ainumber); $stmt->execute(); $stmt->bind_result($filename, $reference); $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->close(); $file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/../dms/files/'.$filename.'.pdf'; if (file_exists($file)) { header('Content-Type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename='.basename($file)); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); header('Accept-Ranges: bytes'); readfile($file); $stmt = $connect->prepare("INSERT INTO dmslog (s_reference, s_userid, s_lastactivity, s_actiontype) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)") or die(mysqli_error()); date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Johannesburg'); $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $actiontype = 'DL'; $stmt->bind_param('ssss', $reference, $webusername, $date, $actiontype); $stmt->execute(); $stmt->close(); } else { $missing = "<b>File not found</b>"; } } } ?> My HTTP access records I assume [15/Nov/2012:10:14:32 +0200] "POST /dms/search.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5783 "http://www.denso.co.za/dms/search.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11" [15/Nov/2012:10:14:33 +0200] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11" [15/Nov/2012:10:14:34 +0200] "GET /dms/view_document.php?document=8 HTTP/1.1" 200 2965 "http://www.denso.co.za/dms/search.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11" [15/Nov/2012:10:14:35 +0200] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11" I have checked my <img src=''> links and I dont see a problem with them. The records indictate there is a favicon.ico request so I created a blank favicon and placed it in my public_html folder and linked it in the page like so <link href="../favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" /> Unfortunately that did not work as the statement still executes twice. I am unsure if it is a favicon issue as my upload page uses an insert query and it executes once. If someone could please tell me where I am going wrong or point me in the right direction I would be very grateful