Re: HTTP headers and include()

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:21 AM, James Colannino<james@colannino.org> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've been hard at work on a new web application, and discovered > something that I would never have seen coming.  I was noticing that when > I called session_start() after a few lines of includes, I was getting > complaints because the HTTP headers had already been sent out.  Then, > after putting session_start() above the include lines, suddenly > everything was working fine. > > The files that were included were nothing more than functions; there was > no code executing that I could tell up to the point of the call to > session_start(). > > I was just wondering if anybody on the list knows why HTTP headers were > being sent out by my includes.  I'm sure there's a good reason.  I'm > just very curious :) > > Thanks very much in advance. > > James > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > HTTP headers are sent and finalized after the first bit of output. I had the same problem before and it turned out to be because I had a close tag "?>" at the end of a file followed by some whitespace. The solution was to remove the ?> from the end of all the files and I haven't closed an entire file since. Perhaps that might be it? --Eddie