while ( $row = $st->fetchrow_hashref ) {
   if ( $host eq $row->{host} ) {
      exit 0;
   }
}

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Hello, with the above code i try not to log again the same visitor that refreshes my webpage. I just want to log him only the first time thet he enters my page. if he hits the submit button and index.pl runs again or he just refreshes his browser i do not want my code to log him again. so i used the above code.

But the problem as i have it now is that the current hostanme is checking against the whole mysal table trying to find the exact match, when i only want the current hostname trying to match the last record entered i the mysql table. Or perhaps you have some better idea to log the user once but not continiously if he reloads the index.pl. But if the user checks my page at another time then i want him to be logged again. I do not want to use session variables for that. Thank you.

In reply to logging the user once every session by Nik

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