How to... Insert similar if not exists?!?

I want to be able to create a similar record if it doesnt exist with a new uid attached to it.

Explanation:
I have a db table with these fields:
id (unique)
lang_id
name
text

I then have lets say 3 records like this:
id lang_id name text
1, 1, test1, "Somthing here"
2, 1, test2, "Something else here"
3, 1, test3, "Something totally different here"

I then want to be able to create 3 new records with a new uid (2) and new text. The id is given automatic and the name should be copied into the new records! If a record exist with both the old a the new uid it should just go on to the next record.

I guess it is depending on the "name" field.

I have tryid with this but with no luck:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Translation</title>
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-family:Lucida Sans; font-size:11px; color:#333333;">
  <tr>
    <td style="padding:5px; font-size:14px; text-transform:uppercase; border-bottom:1px solid #990000;">Translation: <b>English to Germain</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr><td height="10"></td></tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="padding:5px; margin-top:10px;">
    
<?

mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');
mysql_select_db('my_db');


if(!empty($_POST)) {
	mysql_query("INSERT INTO language_data 
	(name, text, lang_id)
	VALUES
	('".$_POST['name']."','".$_POST['text']."', '2')");
	echo "Saved<br>";
}



$langs = array();
$langs[2] = array();
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM language_data WHERE lang_id = '2'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
	$langs[$row['lang_id']][] = $row['name'];
}

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM language_data WHERE lang_id = '1'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
	if(!in_array($row['name'], $langs['1'])) {
		$edit[] = $row;
	}
}

echo "Still needs to be translated: ".count($edit);

$slice = array_slice($edit, 0, 1);

?>    
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
    <form action="translate.php" method="post">
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td style="padding:5px;"> Tagname: <b><?= $slice[0]['name'] ?> </b>
      <input type="hidden" name="tagname" value="<?= $slice[0]['name'] ?>" />
</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="padding:5px;">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="250" style="padding:5px; font-size:12px; text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:bold;">English</td>
        <td width="250" style="padding:5px; font-size:12px; text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:bold;">Germain</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top" style="padding:5px; background-color:#e5e5e5; border-right:1px dotted #333333;"><?= $slice[0]['text'] ?></td>
        <td valign="top" style="padding:5px; background-color:#e5e5e5;"><textarea name="string" style="width:250px;height:150px;">Insert translation here...</textarea></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><br /><input type="submit" value="Save"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
      </form>  
    
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

PHP:

Can somebody please help...

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