Bug #2968: white space in document before setcookie() is called ruins chance to setcookie

From: sladd@mail.rit.edu Operating system: Linux 2.2.13 PHP version: 3.0.12 PHP Bug Type: Parser error Bug description: white space in document before setcookie() is called ruins chance to setcookie I don't think this is the way it is supposed to be. If there is white space before a setcookie() call, even if no text is sent, setcookie fails because it was thinking that text has been sent. More exactly, if we have this (the dashes indicate begining of file) ---------------------------------------- <?php include("include.inc"); ?> <?php setcookie("test", "test", time()+60); ?> ----------------------------------------- will FAIL, even though inside my include.inc I have no text being printed out. The following DOES work. -------------------------------------- <?php include("include.inc"); ?> <?php setcookie("test", "test", time()+60); ?> ------------------------------------- Notice how there is no space after the include. The whitespace outside of the <?php ?> tags seems to matter. This is not clearly defined in the documentation, and I believe it's a bug.