> I am very new to the world of PHP, and still trying to get my foot in the > door. Not doing too bad so far, good fun it all is... but i am having a > problem working out what exactly the problem is here with sessions. > > Here is the code for page one of the tutorial, i copied it straight from > codewalkers.com in the 'sessions' tutorial... > > <HTML> > <BODY> > <? > //Page 1 using sessions!!! > session_start(); > $_SESSION["real_name"] = "Hartleigh Burton"; > print "<A href='page2.php'>Go to this page.</A>"; > ?> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > ...and here are the errors that i receive in my browser when loading... > > Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output > started at E:\Webroot\tutorial\page1.php:3) in > E:\Webroot\tutorial\page1.php on line 5 session_start() must be at the beginning of your code, before any output or HTML. <? session_start(); ?> <html> ... > Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output > started at E:\Webroot\tutorial\page1.php:3) in > E:\Webroot\tutorial\page1.php on line 5 > > Warning: open(/tmp\sess_97999e1abf7d49da95469a65786cd945, O_RDWR) failed: > No such file or directory (2) in E:\Webroot\tutorial\page1.php on line 5 There is a setting in php.ini that tells PHP where to write it's session files to. Right now it's set to /tmp. You need to change that to a valid path for your machine and make sure your web server can write to that directory. Hope that helps, have fun! ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
