start_session error

Anon

I seem to have a problem starting a session. The code I'm using is:

<head>
<title>Test Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

..and the result is:

This is a test

Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index.php:9) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index.php:9) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index.php on line 10

Anybody any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Shaun

Anon

Howdy,

I couldn't explain it any better. Just look at the error message. You're sending data to your browser and a cookie ( thus a session ) needs to send his headers BEFORE the actual HTML data.

Try this:

<?php
session_start();
?>
<head>
<title>Test Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

</body>

frymaster

actually, if you use output buffering it doesn't matter where you put yer header stuff...

ob_start();

echo "implicit header!!!";
if($x)
session_start();
else
header("Location: foo.php");

echo "more text";

ob_end_flush();

will work fine, even though there's sessions and header calls between implicit headers (text output).

Anon

This is a funky error in PHP, all you have to do is declare the start_session(); statement first