It keeps on posting..help

<FORM ACTION="<?=$PHP_SELF?>" METHOD="POST" NAME="newsentry">

when i used this method, a form that will post to itself, it seems to add new newsentry when i refresh my browser.

Can anyone help me how to prevent this

You have to separate the posting code from the display code, something like the following:

if(!empty($_POST['submit']))
{
//insert to database
// Display inserrt message
}
else
{
?>
<form method="post" action="" name="ot">
<input type="text" name="action" value="New Entry">
<input type="submit" name="ADD" value="SAVE">
</form>
<?
}

//When you refresh your browser after submitting new entry, it will submit again..

Thank you for any replies

Why not try it the way I first recommended? When I changed !empty($_POST['submit']) in your code to just $_POST, it worked like a charm.