Re: Cannot send session cookie

Hi Michael, session_start(); must be the very first line of code on the page, with no whitespaces trailing, else you'll get the 'header already sent' message: <?php session_start(); ?> Hth, Andre On Monday 12 July 2004 10:40 am, Michael Purdy wrote: > Folks > > I am a new to php. I am currently learning about session handling and > would appreciate some assistance with the following: > > I am using php 4.3.7 and I am using the default values in the php.ini for > > session.use_cookies = 1 > session.cache_limiter = nocache > > When experimenting with a few simple lines of code > > <script language='php'> ---- This is line 14 > session_start(); > </script> > > I get the following errors: > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent > by (output started at e:\http\cgi\a.php:14) in e:\http\cgi\a.php on line 15 > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers > already sent (output started at e:\http\cgi\a.php:14) in e:\http\cgi\a.php > on line 15 > > Can anyone offer me a insight on the reason for the error. > > Mike