<?php
session_start();
?>Is giving me the error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function phpsession_start() in /home/search.php on line 1
However, the following code executes with no errors:
<?
session_start();
?>Anyone know what could possibly be the problem?
Thanks
Since the error message states that the function called was "phpsession_start()", I would say double check that you do indeed have some whitespace between the '<?php' tag and the [man]session_start/man function call.
If it still doesn't work, try renaming the .php file to .txt and attaching it to your next post - that way we can examine the characters in the file directly.
EDIT: I was curious, so I examined the possibilities myself. The following code:
<?phpsession_start();
?>was simply outputted to my browser - PHP apparently expects whitespace to follow the '<?php' tag, else it doesn't recognize it as the beginning of PHP code.
The only way I could reproduce your error message was by enabling short_open_tag; apparently, "<?php" must be followed by a whitespace for PHP code to be parsed, whereas "<?" does not.
The solution? Ensure that there is whitespace after '<?php', but disable short_open_tag! :p It's recommended that you avoid it, anyway.