[RESOLVED] Sessions

ShugNorris

Hi, pulling the cookie after the log in gives this? It works as it displays the variable (simply, Welcome, Name) type thing.. but it shows this error at the top.

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/hughmr/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/hughmr/public_html/header.php on line 3

Which points to this in the header include:

<?php
	//Start session
	session_start();
?>

And gets pulled up later with this:


<?php echo $_SESSION['SESS_FIRST_NAME'];?>

Could someone advise basically what I'm doing wrong, I'm a little confused, it works (well, does what I want it to do!) but still gives the error.

Thanks in advance,

Shug

TheStalker

ShugNorris;10922698 wrote:
Hi, pulling the cookie after the log in gives this? It works as it displays the variable (simply, Welcome, Name) type thing.. but it shows this error at the top.
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/hughmr/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/hughmr/public_html/header.php on line 3
Which points to this in the header include:
<?php
	//Start session
	session_start();
?>

And gets pulled up later with this:


<?php echo $_SESSION['SESS_FIRST_NAME'];?>
Could someone advise basically what I'm doing wrong, I'm a little confused, it works (well, does what I want it to do!) but still gives the error.

Thanks in advance,

Shug

take out your comment //Start session and also any white space before the session_start(); as below

<?php
session_start();
?>

Bjom

You need to start the session before A N Y T H I N G is sent to the browser. In your case it could be a linebreak some whitespace or maybe there is an include or anything in front of that causing the trouble.

try this as the very first thing in your code (isn't the comment redundant anyway?):

<?php
session_start();

....

ShugNorris

Thanks, you pointed me in the right direction actually.

I'd put it in header.php ... but that's an include of index.php ...

So I put it at the start of index.php, a stupid one on my part!

Thanks for the help though!

Shug

TheStalker

Bjom;10922701 wrote:
You need to start the session before A N Y T H I N G is sent to the browser. In your case it could be a linebreak some whitespace or maybe there is an include or anything in front of that causing the trouble.

try this as the very first thing in your code (isn't the comment redundant anyway?):

<?php
session_start();

....

I think your prob right about the comment but i always as a rule have nothing before i start my session_start();

any way give that a go bud 🙂