PHP loop include

I have a php page that runs and collects some data. This works great and each time I reload the page it collects new data.

I am trying to set up a second php page that includes the first page multiple times. This will save me having to reload the first page.

Here is some code putting the include in a for loop.

<?php


$x=0;

while($x <= 2) {
    include('marker.php');
    echo $x;
    $x++;
} 

?>

When running this loop the first page marker.php is only called once? The marker.php page runs successfully and outputs values to the page.

Also the $x variable is not outputted. The $x variable only shows when i run the loop without the include.

Here is the code for marker.php

include('dbconn2.php');

$date='2017-05-13';
$insert_date = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO `marker_test` (`date`, `value`) VALUES ('$date', '1') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `date` = VALUES(`date`) ");

$select_date = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT * from `marker_test` WHERE `date`='$date' ");

$select_marker = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT * from `marker_test` WHERE `date`='$date' ");
while ($rowGetMarker = mysqli_fetch_array($select_marker)){
          $marker_test=$rowGetMarker['value'];
}

$select_location = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT * from `locations` WHERE `locationID`='$marker_test' ");
while ($rowGetLocation = mysqli_fetch_array($select_location)){
          $location=$rowGetLocation['location'];
           $url=$rowGetLocation['url'];
}

echo '<BR>'; 

$marker_update=$marker_test+1;

$update_value = mysqli_query($link, " UPDATE `marker_test` SET  `value` = '$marker_update' WHERE `date`= '$date' ");

                      include('curl.php');

                      $dom = new DOMDocument;

                      //Get date from scraped page.
                      $dom->loadHTML($output);
                      foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('h2') as $node) {
                          $date =substr($node->nodeValue,-10);
                          $year=substr($node->nodeValue,-4);
                          $month=substr($node->nodeValue,-7,2);
                          $day=substr($node->nodeValue,-10,2);
                          $date=$year.$month.$day;
                          $date=ltrim ($date);       
                          $date=rtrim ($date);
                      }

                      $check_location=mysqli_query($link,"SELECT COUNT(`location`) FROM `Events_08052017_test` WHERE `location`='$location' AND `date`='$date'");
                      $row = mysqli_fetch_row($check_location);
                      $check_value=$row[0];
                      if($check_value!=0){echo '<br>'; echo $location; echo ' already exists on '; echo $date;}
                      else{
                            $total=101;
                            $space=12;

                            $array_data=array();
                            $array_barcode=array();
                            $array_runner=array();
                            $array_time=array();
                            $array_gender=array();
                            $array_gender_pos=array();
                            $array_score=array();
                            $array_date=array();
                            $array_club=array();
                            $array_age=array();


                            $dom->loadHTML($output);
                                  foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('td') as $node) {
                                        if($node->nodeValue=='Unknown') {$array_data[]='Unknown';}
                                        else {
                                             foreach ($node->getElementsByTagName('a') as $node) {
                                                if ($node->getAttribute('target') === '_top') {
                                                   $array_data[ ] = substr($node->getAttribute( 'href' ),29);
                                                }
                                              }
                                          }
                                      $array_data[ ] = $node->nodeValue;
                                  }

                                  echo '<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>';
                                  echo $location;
                                  echo '<BR><BR>';
                                  print_r($array_data);

                          for($i=1;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                          $array_barcode[]=$array_data[$i];
                          }

                          for($i=8;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                          $array_club[]=htmlspecialchars($array_data[$i], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
                          }

                          for($i=2;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                                $array_runner[]=htmlspecialchars($array_data[$i], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
                          }
                          $array_runner=array_splice($array_runner,0,-3);

                          for($i=3;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                          $array_time[]=$array_data[$i];
                          }

                          for($i=4;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                          $array_age[]=$array_data[$i];
                          }

                           for($i=6;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                                $array_gender[]=$array_data[$i];
                                }

                          for($i=7;$i<count($array_data);$i=$i+$space){
                          $array_gender_pos[]=$array_data[$i];
                          }

                           for($i=0;$i<count($array_runner);$i++){
                                   if($array_gender[$i]=="M"){
                                       $score=$total - $array_gender_pos[$i];
                                       if($score<1){$score=1;}
                                       $array_score[ ] = $score;
                                    }

                                  if($array_gender[$i]=="F"){
                                      $score=$total - $array_gender_pos[$i];
                                      if($score<1){$score=1;}
                                      $array_score[ ] = $score;
                                  }
                                  if($array_gender[$i]==""){
                                      $score=' ';
                                      $array_score[ ] = $score;
                                  }
                            }

  // prepare and bind
                            $stmt = $link->prepare("INSERT INTO `Events_08052017_test` (`eventID`,`location`,`date`,`barcode`,`runner`,`time`,`Run Points`,`Volunteer Points`,`Gender`, `Gender pos`,`club`,`age_cat`) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)");
                            $stmt->bind_param("isssssiisiss", $eventID,$location,$date,$barcode,$runner,$time,$runpoints,$volpoints,$gender,$genderpos,$club,$age);

                            // set parameters and execute
                            for( $x=0; $x < count($array_runner); $x++ ){
                                $eventID=null;
                                $barcode=$array_barcode[$x];
                                $runner=$array_runner[$x];
                                $time=$array_time[$x];
                                $runpoints=$array_score[$x];
                                $volpoints=' ';
                                $gender=$array_gender[$x];
                                $genderpos=$array_gender_pos[$x];
                                $club=$array_club[$x];
                                $age=$array_age[$x];

$stmt->execute();
}

}

I have tested the marker.php without the database $stmt part that inserts the values to the Events_08052017_test database table.

Why does the control page run the marker.php page successfully multiple times when the data is not being entered to the database but does not work when asking to insert the data to the database?