I need help- REDIRECT PROBLEM

[Anon]

I am using sessions as an authentication script. The script first retrieves the authentication information and then it checks it. If everything is ok, they are redirected to the members area, if not, they are redirected back to the login page.

The problem I am running into is that I recieve an error stating that the header information could not be sent because information was already passed. The error reports that the information was sent when it discovered and used the include file 🙁 This include file (which is located outside the root) is nescessary because it has the values and the functions stored in it for the authentication. Is there a way around this? Is it possible to have a redirect and an include all in the same script?

[Anon]

If you look at the actual error message, it doesn't complain about the include itself.

The problem is that headers are sent to the browser before any ''real'' document data. So if you start sending any ''real data'', it's too late to send a header. If you include() a file, that's no problem as long as it's only PHP code that doesn't output anything before functions are called.

However, if the file you include() contains print, echo or regular HTML, you have to send headers BEFORE the include.

This file may contain ''real data'' without you knowing it. A blank line before or after the <? .. ?> tags could be enough to ruin it all. So, I'd go with checking for blank lines in the file included, as well as in the top of the file that includes it.

[Anon]

Ok that explains something I overlooked then. I will need to cleanup the spaces after the ?>. Thank you for that- because I was about to trash an entire program and start over with a new plan of attack.