Re: Re: One more 'Headers Already Sent' error. :-(

From:	Brad Melendy	Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:11:09 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: One more 'Headers Already Sent' error. :-(
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I figured it out. I needed to include the file header.html farther down, just after the body tag in the file login.php. I don't really understand why but it works that way so I'll take it. Thanks for your help Bruce. ....Brad "Brad Melendy" <brad@techknow.biz> wrote in message news:20020626000143.38778.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Thanks Bruce, > I thought you might be on to something because I did have that in the file > header.html, however, after removing all such tags so that there was only > the raw html that would exist after the <body> tag, it still gives the same > error. The exat error message is: > > "Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output > started at c:\html\demo.e-learn.net\quizd\header.html:1) in > c:\html\demo.e-learn.net\quizd\login.php on line 17 " > > Here is the entire contents of the file header.html: > ----------------------code > follows----------------------------------------------------- > <style> >  > </style> > <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > width="100%" height="75"> > <tr> > <td width="207" height="43"> > <img border="0" src="elearn.jpg" alt="e-Learn Solutions" > width="205" > height="39"></td> > <td width="505" height="43"></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td height="1" bgcolor="#990000" colspan="2"> > <img src="khaki.gif" border="0" alt width="1" > height="1"></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td width="714" colspan="2" height="1"> > <p align="center"><a href="login.php">Login</a> | > <a > href="logout.php"> Logout</a> | View Quizzes</td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td height="1" bgcolor="#990000" colspan="2"> > <img src="khaki.gif" border="0" alt width="1" > height="1"></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td width="714" colspan="2" height="21"></td> > </tr> > </table> > -----------------code ends-------------------------------------------------- > > I did try removing the <style> tag but it had no effect. I'm just stumped. > Thanks again. > > ...Brad > > > "Bruce Karstedt" <bkarstedt@prodigy.net> wrote in message > news:005c01c21c9e$f0d64560$e70a3941@c3... > > Are you sure that both files don't have a <HEAD> </HEAD> section in them? > > > > Bruce Karstedt > > President > > Technology Consulting Associates, Ltd. > > Tel: 847-735-9488 > > Fax: 847-735-9474 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brad Melendy [mailto:brad@techknow.biz] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:08 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Re: One more 'Headers Already Sent' error. :-( > > Importance: Low > > > > > > 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 > > > >