Re: setcookie

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Tim Daff wrote:

Hi, I am learning PHP, I am trying to set a simple cookie: <html> <head> <title>Cookies</title> </head> <body> <?php setcookie('test', 45, time()+(60*60*24*7)); ?> </body> </html> Firefox is returning this error: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Users/Daff/Sites/php_sandbox/cookies.php:7) in /Users/Daff/Sites/php_sandbox/cookies.php on line 7 I have googled this and can't find out what I am doing wrong. Any help you could give me would be much appreciated. Tim

setcookie from php.net states the following: setcookie() defines a cookie to be sent along with the rest of the HTTP headers. Like other headers, cookies must be sent before any output from your script (this is a protocol restriction). This requires that you place calls to this function prior to any output, including <html> and <head> tags as well as any whitespace call setcookie before you output ANY THING, even error hope that helps. t. hiep