Bingo ya know I knew that about the headers but it threw me since it worked on my box perfectly no matter where I put the session_start(); Lo and behold I check out the php.ini on my box and there it was: output buffering=4096 I did not know about the output buffering. BUT I just moved my session_start(); to the very tip top in we're in ship shape. Sorry for all the strange sayings Thanks so much to Jason, Stephen and John Ciao >>> Stephen Johnson <maillists@xxxxxxxxxx> 03/23/05 11:30AM >>> You need to make sure that output_buffering is turned on in your php.ini file on the dev server. <?php /* Stephen Johnson c | eh The Lone Coder http://www.thelonecoder.com stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 562.924.4454 (office) 562.924.4075 (fax) continuing the struggle against bad code */ ?> > From: "Mignon Hunter" <mignon.hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:20:24 -0600 > To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: session woes > > I had my script working beautifully on my box but when transferring to dev > server no such luck > > Because we have an older version of php on the webservers, I had to get my > admin to change the php.ini on the > session.use_trans_id = 1 > so that the SID wouldnt show in the URL. But I'm not sure if that's what is > causing my problem now. > > It seems I'm not able to transfer and use session data from one page to > another. I registerd and stored my var in a session variable and can see it on > sess_downloads_p2 but then I loose it on p3. > > I'm also getting > > [23-Mar-2005 09:04:47] PHP Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers > already sent by (output started at /var/www/htdocs/sess_downloads_p2.php:5) in > /var/www/htdocs/sess_downloads_p2.php on line 60 > [23-Mar-2005 09:04:47] PHP Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - > headers already sent (output started at > /var/www/htdocs/sess_downloads_p2.php:5) in > /var/www/htdocs/sess_downloads_p2.php on line 60 > > where line 60 is my session_start(); > > I'm kinda clueless as to what to try next. > > Thanks for any ideas > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php