Re: [Fwd: don't want to belabor a point about session_start, but...

--- Rachael LaPorte Taylor <rachael.laporte.taylor@census.gov> wrote: > OK, I understand that in order to avoid those nasty warning messages > about "Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent...." you must > include the directive, session_start, above all headers, includes, etc. > > I'm trying to debug and port a contractor's code to PHP 4.3.4 from a > couple of years ago. Is there an explanation as to why the code, written > under PHP 3 and also working under PHP 4.0.4, would not generate these > warning messages, without having session_start at the top of the file? > The session_start directive is pulled in later with an include file. It only has to be issued prior to any output, unless there is output buffering. Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/