Re: Error when execute header('location: otherpage.php') after email been sent out. Any Workaround?

From: Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:34:29 +0000
Subject: Re: Error when execute header('location: otherpage.php') after email been sent out. Any Workaround?
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On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:32 +0800, Keith wrote: > I have a user sign up page that collects sign up information from user with > form. > This form will then be submitted to another process.php page for setting up > the user account and send email to the user. > After the email been sent out, the user will be directed back to homepage > with header("location: index.php"). > However, error happen with warning: [Cannot modify header information - > headers already sent by...] > Any workaround for this? > > Thanks for help! > Keith > > > You don't need a workaround. The header("Location...") thing will only work if you have not sent any content to the browser yet. That includes even a single space or newline. It looks like in your process.php page, something is being output to the browser. Are you able to do a code dump of that page? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

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