php curl requesting twice - php

Question

I have a limit of 25 requests/min from PUBGs official API. For some reason instead of it requesting twice for each search its using up 4 requests. I can't figure out why. I have checked that the code isn't running twice. Only once, but still it's requesting 4 times.
UPDATE:
I tried making a separate page and apparently there is a bug somewhere calling my function twice. Still don't know why but I'm now 99% sure it's not the function itself.
Code For My Request
function getProfile($profileName, $region, $seasonDate){
// Just check if there is an acctual user
if($profileName === null){
$data->error = "Player Not Found";
$data->noUser = true;
return $data;
}else{
$season = "division.bro.official.".$seasonDate;
/*
Get The UserID
*/
$ch = curl_init("https://api.pubg.com/shards/$region/players?filter[playerNames]=$profileName");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Authorization: Bearer APIKEY',
'Accept: application/vnd.api+json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$rawData = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
$data->playerId = $rawData["data"][0]["id"];
curl_close($ch);
// Testing if user exists
if($rawData["errors"][0]["title"] === "Not Found"){
$data->noUser = true;
$data->error = "Player Not Found";
return $data;
}else{
/*
Get The acctual stats
*/
$ch = curl_init("https://api.pubg.com/shards/$region/players/$data->playerId/seasons/$season");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Authorization: Bearer APIKEY',
'Accept: application/vnd.api+json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data->playerDataJSON = curl_exec($ch);
$data->playerData = json_decode($data->playerDataJSON, true);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
}
}
This is how it's getting called
if (isset($_POST['search-username'])) {
$username = $_POST['search-username'];
header("Location: /profile/$username/pc-na/2018-01/overall/tpp");
die();
}
In The actual profile php
$data = getProfile($page_parts[1], $page_parts[2], $page_parts[3]);

Answer 1

absolutely sure it's only called once? set a lock on it. change it to
function getProfile($profileName, $region, $seasonDate){
static $once=true;
if($once!==true){
throw new \LogicException("tried to run getProfile() twice!");
}
$once=false;

Answer 2

Shortly after I figure out it's not the function I realized that the culprit was an empty script I was calling. I knew this script created an error which I didn't really care about since it was empty and I had no idea why it was creating the error. For some obscure reason this script created the error. I'll just make a lesson out of it to always fix the smallest errors.

Answer 3

I've also been seeing this behavior - a script with a single curl_exec() request gets called twice.
The strange thing is this was only happening when running on localhost (under a wampp installation) but when run from any other webserver was fine and it is just called once.
I never managed to debug it completely but it seems to be an issue with the local server so test elsewhere if you are seeing this.