Includes and header help

Randomfool

Hi there, I'm trying to get my header functions in my includes to work and i've been staring at this for waaay to long.
basically I'm trying to set a cookie in a script that is part of an include

so i've got

<? phpstuff ?>
<head>
</head>
<html>

<body>

some html

<?include file.inc?>

more html
</body>
</html>

The problem is the cookies cause the page to explode with a "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by" error... I have almost the exact same code working on another site i just can't figure out what's wrong with it.

Thanks,

-Ryan

Rodney_H_

It would help to post the entire and actual code that you have.

However, the call to the setcookie(); function must be done prior to anything being output to the browswer at all. No whitespace, no html output of any kind. The reason is the request to set the cookie is sent with other header information.

Randomfool

Here's the Html, The thing that's buggin me is i had this code working on another site i just copied it over and tweaked it a little when i moved it. So there's gotta be something stupid i'm missing. Thanks!

Kudose

Just like Rodney said, the problem is that you are sending header information (in this case, a cookie request in login.php), after output has been sent to the browser (your first code snippet).

To fix your error, you MUST use [man]setcookie[/man] BEFORE anything is sent to the browser.