Header order.

[aroderick]

Here is my problem.

I am trying to write a simple, yet secure, admin section for a website. I have looked at the User Auth library in the articles section and it was a lot of help but I am running into a problem.
I have a function that looks in a database checks a username and password and sets session cookies for that user. Once that is done I want the browser to redirect to the protected section so I try to set a header("Location: blah blah") but the html header is already sent with the cookie. I cant call the header statement before setcookie or else the cookies wont be sent. I have thought about setting the cookie in the main page of the admin section but I can't find a way to make it secure. Please HELP!

Thanks,
Adam

[Anon]

There is no reason you cannot call header() AFTER you do a setcookie()

On the other hand you calling a setcookie() after a header() will not set any cookie at all.

[brandonschnell]

make sure you're not sending anything back to the web browser before the header(). setting a cookie and sending a header() is doable, but make sure it happens before any html(anything not between <?php ?> php tags) is sent to the client.