Cookies not working...

Anon

I have a page that starts something like so:

 <?php 
      if($something) {
           setcookie("variable",$variable,time()+14400,"/",".website.ext",0); 
      }
 ?>

</head>

But I'm getting a header error with that cookie:

"Oops, php3_SetCookie called after header has been sent..."

What they heck is wrong? The setcookie is between the <head></head> tags... i don't understand it
-Bob

Anon

Cookies must be set before you print out anything to the browser. Typically if you want to check for $something and set a cookie accordingly, you have to do that at the very top of your script... ie.

<?
if ($something) {
SetCookie(...);
}
?>

...

--Ryan

Anon

Ok... I've put all my PHP cookie stuff at the very top of the page. Here's what I have:

<?php
setcookie("variable",$variable,time()+14400,"/",".website.ext",0);
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">

<head>
.....

and it's still giving me a hassle:

Warning: Oops, php3_SetCookie called after header has been sent in index.php3 on line 2

I'm using IE 5.0.

Any more thoughts?

Thanks!

Anon

Did you use the header() function to redirect to 'index.php3' in some other file?

Did you make sure there is not a blank line above "<?php " in 'index.php3'?

Anon

I didn't use the header() function to get to index.php3, and there are no spaces, lines, characters, etc. in front of my first <?php thing. I'm stumped.