Header() question

[Anon]

Actually it is about collecting headers and sending them at certain time.
My problemis like following: I have index.phtml file which includes menu script, nad then - script which I want to open. To be clear, I open different pages of my project like:
index.phtml?page=NEWS
and now index.phtml includes menu and then, say, news.phtml. Now, I cannot use header() in news.phtml to redirect pages in this case, cause I always have menu file already included. I remeber that some time ago I came across some function which collects headers and sends them only at certain moment - so that headers are always sent before any other otuput. But looks like I did not save the example.
Can anybody help me?

[Anon]

OK, well i'm no expert, so correct me if i'm wrong, but a http header cannot be sent after you have sent any data to the browser. Try using include() to stick the file (eg NEWS) into index.phtml. The other option of course would be to send the header at the beginning of the script if possible.

[marcel]

ob_start();
at the begining of the main script (index.html)

ob_end_flush();
after you set headers;

PM

[greggory]

As say marcel, use output buffering.
Watch that section in php4 docs.

It may also be usefull for many other things

🙂