header() problem

[iNFERiON]

Hi all,

I am struggling with the following issue, I am building a login form, which I want to have the look of my CSS, but upon succesful login, I want it to automatically redirect back to where the user came from.

I include my CSS like this:

include('../inc/style.css');

and I redirect back to the main page like this:

header("Location: index.php");

Although upon succesful login a user now gets this:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/inc/style.css:1) in /var/www/html/login/login.php on line 37

How can I have my CSS on the page and have PHP redirect upon succesful login ?

[Houdini]

If you are outputting anything before calling a header it will fail. There can be no output at all even a space. You may include all the code you wish provided it does not produce output so you might need to include the CSS elsewhere. When you include a css file it probably has an HTML tag like <style blah blah> and this is output so the header will fail.

You could just run your CSS embedded or inline and then it is no problem.