[SOLVED] headers driving me mad please help

[lbaxterl]

Im creating a login form but everytime i try to output a header or start a session i get errors:

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /web/users/e5034824/Test/confirmlogin.php:1) in /web/users/e5034824/Test/confirmlogin.php on line 2

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /web/users/e5034824/Test/confirmlogin.php:1) in /web/users/e5034824/Test/confirmlogin.php on line 2

 

 

<?php
session_start();
$username = $_POST['myusername'];
$password = $_POST['mypassword'];

require 'common.php';

$q = "SELECT id FROM members WHERE username = '$username' AND password = '$password'";

$result = $mysqli->query($q) or die(mysqli_error());

if (mysqli_num_rows($result) == 1) {
$user = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_NUM);
$_SESSION['admin'] = $user[0]; // Sets the session to the user's ID
} else {
$message = "User Name Not Recongised, Please Try Again!";
echo $message .  ' <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content=5;url="login.php"/>';
}
?>

 

I always get the header error message but have no clue on how to fix it any ideas?

[MadTechie]

Read this

 

the problem with the code below is the white space at the start.. either that or your including it from another file that has output!

 

// <---- remove this white space --->
<?php
session_start();
$username = $_POST['myusername'];

 

[Salkcin]

yes, any output to the browser before using headers will cause errors.

 

Remember that header() must be called before any actual output is sent' date=' either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP. [b']It is a very common error[/b] to read code with include(), or require(), functions, or another file access function, and have spaces or empty lines that are output before header() is called. The same problem exists when using a single PHP/HTML file.

[lbaxterl]

sorry there was no white space i double taped enter before posting the code stupidly sorry, any other ideas could it be a server issue?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,243246.msg1135754.html#msg1135754

[lbaxterl]

thank you so much need to save as ansi files, is there a easy way to convert them all in dreamweaver?