admin login problem please help

[beckjo1]

I am trying to login to the administration area of the phpautomebersarea and I keep getting the message that I have entered an invalid username or password. My error log shows the following:

Fri May 14 15:13:30 2004] [error] PHP Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/cadence/public_html/phpautomembersarea/config.inc.php:16) in /home/cadence/public_html/phpautomembersarea/admin/logoff.php on line 21
[Fri May 14 15:13:30 2004] [error] PHP Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/cadence/public_html/phpautomembersarea/config.inc.php:16) in /home/cadence/public_html/phpautomembersarea/admin/logoff.php on line 21

The config.inc.php reads as follows:

<?

// phpAutoMembersArea config file
$phpAutoMembersArea_version = "1.0";

define('DBHOST', 'localhost');
define('DBUSER', 'cadence');
define('DBPASS', 'password');
define('DBNAME', 'cadence_clients');
define('CO_NAME', 'CADENCE Background Services, LLC');
define('ADMIN_FOLDER', 'admin');
?>

the logoff.php file reads as follows:

<?
/*********************************************************
phpAutoMembersArea
Author: Seiretto.com
phpAutoMembersArea © Copyright 2003 Seiretto.com
All rights reserved. *

---

• Launch Date: Dec 2003 *
• *
• Version Date Comment *
• 1.0 15th Dec 2003 Original release *
• *
• NOTES: *
• Requires: PHP 4.2.3 (or greater) *
• and MySQL
  *********************************************************/
  $phpAutoMembersArea_version="1.0";
  // ---------------------------------------------------------

if (!isset($loginerror)) $loginerror="";
session_start();
unset($_SESSION['admin_md5_pass']);
unset($username);
unset($admin_md5_pass);
session_destroy();
?>
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
url2open="index.php?loginerror=<? echo urlencode($loginerror); ?>";
document.location=url2open;
// --></script>

<p><a href="index.php?loginerror=<? echo urlencode($loginerror); ?>">Click here if not auto forwarding.</a></p>

i am brand new to php and mysql so this has completely baffled me. Can someone please help me sort this out?

[sfullman]

very easy -- errors you're getting are because you're outputting characters to teh browser before you initiate session_start(); Make sure you don't have any white space before your first <?php tag. Let ~~~~ be the top of the document:

<?php ... etc. ... 

wouldn't work because you've output a character (even if it's a newline)


OR, you're outputting code via print() or echo() perhaps.


Sam

[beckjo1]

Samuel,

you are a godsend. Something so simple sovled the problem.

It's something I won't forget to check for either!

Thanks!😃