header not responding

PaulR75

a simple page with simple code:

<?php

  header ("location:recap_taxi.php");

?>

works fine. BUT,

if I add an include to log on a server and DB it fails.

<?php 
include("../php/connect.php");
header ("location:recap_taxi.php"); 

?>

read and tried adding the @ symbol on the include line but no cigar.
The connect content is basic security and db similar to the following (changed server, login and passwd for obvious reasons 🙂

<?php

$server="www.myserver.com";
$login_serveur="mylogin";
$passwd="mykeyin";

$connexion=mysql_connect("$serveur", "$login_serveur", "$passwd");

/
if (!$connexion) {echo "no connexion !";}
else {echo "connected to " .$serveur ."<p />";}
/

// connexion to DB
$database=mysql_select_db("mydb");

/ if (!$database) {echo "no connexion to " .$basedonnees ."<p />";}
else {echo "connected to " .$basedonnees ."<p />";} /
?>

--- all this on PHP Version 4.3.9
--- using sucessfully the include of connect.php file in other scripts

Anyone able to solve this mystery ? 🙂

laserlight

First, you need to find out what is the error message, if any. To do this, set error_reporting to E_ALL and display_errors to On in php.ini.

Now, a likely cause of the problem is that your included file contains some leading or trailing blank lines. This causes output to be sent to the browser, and thus you cannot send your location header as headers have already been sent. Remove those blank lines, and indeed anything that causes output to be printed, and see if it works.

Incidentally, the URL of a location header must be an absolute URL in order to comply with HTTP/1.1. You should also have an exit or die right after sending the location header, otherwise execution will continue to the rest of the script.

PaulR75

I tried the leading and trailing line lead :/ no cigar.

I am sharing server with security prone hosting service and have no access to php.ini. So i figure i will have to find another way to make my thing happen.

I am shiny new to PHP. Just out of a course.

Many thanks for your help 🙂

bradgrafelman

Use [man]ini_set/man and [man]error_reporting/man to set said directives.. make sure you do this at the very top of your script.