As a dirty trick you can put following line on the top of your script,
it will work
ob_start();
But you should try to know why it is not working, and what exactly
ob_start will impact your application and What is the thing called
"Output Buffering".
Zareef Ahmed
On 3/12/08, Hiep Nguyen <hiep@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Tim Daff wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am learning PHP, I am trying to set a simple cookie:
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>Cookies</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <?php setcookie('test', 45,
> > time()+(60*60*24*7)); ?>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > Firefox is returning this error:
> >
> > Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
> (output
> > started at /Users/Daff/Sites/php_sandbox/cookies.php:7) in
> > /Users/Daff/Sites/php_sandbox/cookies.php on line 7
> >
> > I have googled this and can't find out what I am doing wrong. Any help
> you
> > could give me would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Tim
>
>
> setcookie from php.net states the following:
>
> setcookie() defines a cookie to be sent along with the rest of the HTTP
> headers. Like other headers, cookies must be sent before any output from
> your script (this is a protocol restriction). This requires that you place
> calls to this function prior to any output, including <html> and <head>
> tags as well as any whitespace
>
> call setcookie before you output ANY THING, even error
>
> hope that helps.
> t. hiep
>
>
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