Sessions and css

Pete

Hi all,

im having abit of a problem combining sessions and style sheets. If i start a session with session_start() i cannot include my .css file, it goes headers already sent

but if i include my .css first, i cannot start the session as it again says headers already sent

how would i go about including my external style sheets and have sessions?

thanks in advance

Pete

bobthedog

I am a bit confused at to what you are doing here. Why are you using PHP to include() a css file? Have you tried just using the link attribute in the HTML files <head> section?

Pete

sorry for the confusion, yeah i did use the link attribute in the header

apparantly once i do that, i cannot start a session

Pete

bobthedog

Errr - that's not right at all. The only reason that you cannot start a session (assuming that PHP version allows for them and PHP is set up correctly) is that you have dumped some output to the browser already before you try starting a session.

The session is set up in the browsers header fields, and so any output must not come before this has started. Even an extra space before your <?php tag will be sent to the browser and stop you from setting up a session.

So - make sure that your session call comes before any output and you should find that things all work fine 🙂