Login/Cookie

Anon

Hey.. hope some ppl can help me 🙂

Ok.. I have a login form in plain html w/submit button using POST....

I then call a login.php file that will check against a MySQL db to check if the username and password are valid...

If valid I want to create a cookie..based on that users log in..

The problem is I get an error like: "cannot add to header because output has already begun..." not exactly in those words... but similar...

So how come I can't create a cookie after I check if a user has a valid name and password?

rgds,
Swixy

jolly

cookie's like other header commands have to be sent prior to any other output...check that your not sending any output prior to setting the cookie..not even a <head> tag

Anon

that was exaclty it....

I head html code before setting my cookie..

I'm new to php and I had always assumed that "having no output" before the cookie was mean't to be interpreted for the next page that would use the cookie and not where the cookie was being sent..

warren <-- is my god 😉

Anon

err sent = set