Re: PHP will NOT display this on my dev machine: Warning: session_start()...

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 19:19 +0100, John Black wrote: > I am running into a strange problem and I hope someone might have an > idea why this is happening. > > My installation of PHP will *NOT* display the warning message below on > my development machine where it should display it (sample code at the > bottom). > Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session > cache limiter .... > > After receiving a bug report from a customer I tested my code on a XAMPP > setup and, sure enough, it displayed the warning message. > But on my machine, I can't find a message in my php log, it is as if > this problem does not even exist (on my dev machine). > > My dev setup is: > OS: ARCH 64bit (about a month out of date) > PHP Dev stuff: > Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8k DAV/2 SVN/1.6.6 > PHP/5.3.1 with Suhosin-Patch > xdebug-2.0.5-2-x86_64 > > php.ini > error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT > display_errors = On > display_startup_errors = On > log_errors = On > html_errors = On > .... > > phpinfo() confirms that these settings are in effect > display_errors On On > error_reporting 32767 32767 > > So does anybody have any clue as to what could be causing this problem > of not getting a warning message? > > Here is sample code: > <p>The warning should be below this line</p> > <?PHP session_start(); ?> > <p>The warning should be above this line</p> > > Which should produce the message below between the lines: > Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session > cache limiter - headers already sent ( output started at <file_name> on > line 2 ) > > but on my machine all I get is this in html source of the output: > <p>The warning should be below this line</p> > <p>The warning should be above this line</p> > > thx > -- > John > Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und > diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' > [Friedrich Nietzsche] > > Is your system setup with session autostart enabled? That would cause PHP to ignore you manually starting them I believe, as they should have already been started. I'm not 100% certain on this though. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk