RE: [PHP] Re: One more 'Headers Already Sent' error. :-(

If header.html has HTML in it, THEN THAT IS OUTPUT! You can't send a header after output. Do you even read the error message? It says OUTPUT STARTED AT /home/bmelendy/websites/www.e-learn.net/quizD/header.html:3. THAT MEANS LINE 3 STARTED OUTPUT... ---John "been a long day, deal with it!" Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Melendy [mailto:brad@techknow.biz] > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 6:08 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: One more 'Headers Already Sent' error. :-( > > Well, I have traced this down to line 4 in the following code > 'include("header.html");' which just includes my navigation bar. If I > comment it out, everything works great, if I leave it in, I get the error > Headers Already Sent. The file it purely html. What could be the > problem?? > Thanks in advance! > > <?php > error_reporting(2039); > include("dblib.inc"); > include("userlib.inc"); > include("header.html"); > $message=""; > if ( isset( $actionflag ) && $actionflag == "login" ) > { > if ( empty( $form[login] ) || empty( $form[password] ) ) > $message .= "You must fill in all fields<br>\n"; > if ( ! ( $row_array = checkPass( $form[login], $form[password] ) ) ) > $message .= "Incorrect password. Please try again<br>\n"; > if ( $message == "" ) // we found no errors > { > LastLogin($row_array[login]); > cleanSession( $row_array[id], $row_array[login], $row_array[password] > ); > header( "Location: index.php?".SID ); > } > } > ?> > > > "Brad Melendy" <brad@techknow.biz> wrote in message > news:20020625200359.74200.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi All, > > I know this has come up before and I've read some posts so far, but this > is > > still eluding me. > > > > I have come to understand that typically, if you are getting an error > > message about your headers having already been sent to the browser, you > are > > writing bad code. Now, I want to right good code so I really want to > figure > > this out the right way and stay away from doing stuff like setting > Output > > Buffering to ON in the php.ini file, (which I can do in my case). > > > > So, basically, I get the error message: > > > > "Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by > (output > > started at /home/bmelendy/websites/www.e-learn.net/quizD/header.html:3) > in > > /home/bmelendy/websites/www.e-learn.net/quizD/login.php on line 17" > > > > Now, I can see right on line 17 that I'm outputting a header with the > > following line: > > > > header( "Location: index.php?".SID ); > > > > This is part of an if/then statement that is supposed to redirect the > user > > to index.php upon login. The conflict occurs because I have an include > file > > with a function checkUser() that also redirects the user to the > login.php > > page if they fail the the check with a line: > > > > header( "Location: /main/login.php" ); > > > > So, is there no way for me to redirect a user from both a function under > > certain circumstances and also from withing a page that calls that > function? > > I don't completely understand when exactly the headers are being sent > and > > this does all work properly if I turn the Output Buffering to 'ON' in > the > > php.ini file, but I'd like to try to make this work the 'right' way > rather > > than cut corners and just make the server work for my code, instead of > > making my code work for the server. ;-) > > > > Thanks very much for any input. > > > > ...Brad > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php