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How does the section near top to define variables work? Wouldn't that make $username be the value of $confirm_password?

Very very hard to see the returned array

This tip is taken from https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.split.php Tip split() is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0. preg_split() is the suggested alternative to this function. If you don't require the power of regular expressions, it is faster to use explode(), which doesn't incur the overhead of the regular expression engine.

your table header also has an extra <th> before user name

With the given information I would guess that you need to make sure the survey script has been written to verify that the fields are filled.

what do the curly brackets before and after header go to?

is there supposed to be a comma at the end of 'kudokey' => $kudokey, ?

I am guessing OP's original post had the html part of code in an .html file and the php code was what he had in his form action file

I don't know what code is in test_time.php so I get an error that that page is not found. When I remove the form action page and leave it blank it seems to work for me and it seems to be starting the time when page loads. This was tested on my linux server.