note 89989 added to function.session-start

I kept getting: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at myfile.php:2) Only when I had uploaded my pages from my home development server to my hosted website. the same page worked fine in development, so there must be a difference in the php setup, but since this is a site that hosts many different clients web sites, I can't get them to change thier config. After a little bit of research and trial and error, I found the cure was to move the line: <?php session_start(); ?> to be the very 1st line in any .php file. orginally I had: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <?php session_start(); ?> <html> <head> ...etc so I changed it to : <?php session_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> ...etc and all is well... The clue is in the warning message, it ends :2) which means the session_start() call is not on line 1 of the file! Hope this helps & good Luck Loz ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 58.107.147.130 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/89989 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89989 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/89989 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php