RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Header issue

From: Ashley Sheridan > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 19:01 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: >> sorry man, but no blancs etc. means NOTHING should be send before the header >> >> it should look like this: >> <?php >> >> header("Location: advertise2.php"); >> >> ?> >> >> here u can do ur html >> >> >> >> not one! single char incl. space should be outputted before the > header e.g. before the php open tag. >> > > I think this sort of issue arises particularly because of the > misconception that PHP is embedded inside HTML pages. Once a person has > that idea in their head, they will start to work with an HTML template > and add PHP as necessary. While that can work, in cases such as this, > it's best to remember that HTML (and XML or other languages, etc) is > inserted into PHP scripts. After using Perl to generate HTML, that is exactly what it looks like. I always believed that was the way PHP was designed, so the PHP scripts are embedded inside the HTML. It is a much more logical construct than trying to use Perl, or C or ... Bob McConnell