Loop results executing twice

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Published on 2012-04-15T11:16:17Z Indexed on 2012/04/15 11:29 UTC
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I creating a simple site with PHP where the users can submit blogs and other users (who are logged in) can post comments on them. I have made a link called "comments" below each blog that when clicked will show / hide all the comments relevant to the specific blog (also if the user is logged in, it will show a form field in which they can submit new comments). So basically each blog will have multiple comments. I have done two different codes for this but they both have the same problem that each comment appears twice (everything else works fine). Could anyone point out why?

mysql_select_db ("ooze"); 
$result = mysql_query ("select * from blog") or die(mysql_error()); 
$i = 1;   
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
 { 
  echo "<h1>$row[title]</h1>"; 
  echo "<p class ='second'>$row[blog_content]</p> ";  
  echo "<p class='meta'>Posted by .... &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; $row[date] &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; <a href='#' onclick=\"toggle_visibility('something$i'); return false\">Comments</a><div id='something$i' style='display: none;'>";     
  $i++; 
  $a = $row["ID"];
  $result2 = mysql_query ("select * from blog, blogcomment where $a=blogID") or die(mysql_error()); 
    while($sub = mysql_fetch_array($result2)) 
    { 
     echo "<p class='third' >$sub[commentdate] &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; $sub[username]</p><p>said:</p> <p>$sub[comment]</p>"; 
     } 
 if ( isset ($_SESSION["gatekeeper"])) 
 { 
    echo '<form method="post" name="result_'.$row["ID"].'" action="postcomment.php"><input name="ID" type = "hidden" value = "'.$row["ID"].'" /><input name="comment" id="comment" type="text" style="margin-left:20px;"/><input type="submit" value="Add comment" /></form>'; 
 }  
 else 
 {  
    echo '<p class="third"><a href="register.html">Signup </a>to post a comment</p>'; 
 } 
echo "</div>"; 
}
mysql_close($conn); 

//second version of inner loop://

if ( isset ($_SESSION["gatekeeper"])) 
{
  while($sub = mysql_fetch_array($result2)) 
  { 
    echo "<p class='third' >$sub[commentdate] &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; $sub[username] said:</p> <p>$sub[comment]</p>"; 
   }
echo '<form method="post" name="result_'.$row["ID"].'" action="postcomment.php"><input name="ID" type = "hidden" value = "'.$row["ID"].'" /><input name="comment" id="comment" type="text" style="margin-left:20px;"/><input type="submit" value="Add comment" /></form>'; 
}  
else 
{
  while($sub = mysql_fetch_array($result2)) 
  { 
    echo "<p class='third' >$sub[commentdate] &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; $sub[username] said:</p> <p>$sub[comment]</p>"; 
  }
echo '<p class="third"><a href="register.html">Signup </a>to post a comment</p>'; 
 } 
echo "</div>"; 
} 
mysql_close($conn);

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