(PHP4) In your php.ini file: output_buffering = On
Now you can send header calls and session calls whenever you want. Also,
take a look at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php
Ethan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Solution to "headers already sent" error.
> Hiho,
>
> Merio, Quinn wrote:
> > So, during the time the lists were down, i was banging my head over a
> > seemingly impossible error message.
> >
> > Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent
> >
> > What?! I exlaimed.. the first line in my page registered the session
> > variable i was using, so what was the deal. I turned out to be one
measly
> > little space in front of my <?php tag.
>
> Well, reading the complete message should have helped, which goes like
this:
>
> "Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /foo/foo.php3:2) in /foo/bar.php3 on line 399"
>
> The message tells you in which file and on which line the output was
started.
> With PHP 4 it does, anyway.
>
> > Figured i would share that nugget, cus man did it ever drive me nuts,
and i
> > saw no reference to it at all in the manuals.
>
> Not in the session-section, no. But the description of the
header()-function
> (http://php.net/header) contains this paragraph:
>
> "Remember that the header() function must be called before any actual
output
> is sent, either by normal HTML tags blank lines in a file, or from PHP. It
is
> a very common error to read code with include(), or require(), functions,
or
> another file access function, and have spaces or empty lines that will
output
> before header() is called. The same problem exists when using a single
> PHP/HTML file."
>
> Of course, this is hard to find when you're browsing through the
> session-functions. A link might be useful. Something like "This function
> needs to send a HTTP-Header, so you ... as with the header()-function."
>
> regards
> Wagner
>
> --
> "Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take
> economists seriously."
> - Cincinnati Enquirer
>
