Re: Problem with header

Hi, Thursday, March 25, 2004, 9:17:31 AM, you wrote: PM> Hello to all - just joined this list to see if I can enhance PM> my pretty slim knowledge of PHP. PM> I have a little script I cobbled together than I modified to use as a guestbook for a PM> client's site. I am trying to get the script to call a PM> "success" page if the mail in fact gets PM> sent. I plan to also add a "failure" page if the validation PM> routine (haven't added this yet) PM> doesn't work. PM> I have been experimenting with the statement PM> header("Location:thanks.shtml"); PM> But no matter where I place it in the PHP file, I get the error message that says PM> "Headers already sent..." PM> To wit: PM> <? PM> include ("/file with passwords and user id's in it"); PM> //a bunch of stuff to pull email recipient's address and id out of MySQL db PM> //works fine PM> //$enjoy, $visit, $test vars pulled from form that follows the script, no probs there PM> $recipient=$to_name; PM> $message=$enjoy.$visit.$text; PM> $params['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; PM> if ($submit){ PM> mail($recipient, $subject, $message, PM> "From:\"$from_name\"<$from_email>\r\n" . PM> "Reply-to: $from_email\r\n" . PM> "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); PM> } ?>> PM> So where in the world does the PM> header("Location:thanks.shtml"); PM> statement go? And if I do an if/else thing on submit, where does the other statement go? PM> header("Location:error.shtml"); PM> TIA for any advice you can offer. I must be really missing the point here. PM> Cheers --- Phil Matt Any whitespace in any file before the <?php will cause data to be sent to the browser forcing the headers to be sent. So make sure the first line of your page has <?php and it is a good idea to drop the ?> from included pages as there may be blank lines following which are just as bad. So the rule is, header() can go anywhere but before any output to the browser. -- regards, Tom