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The code below worked perfectly on my old hosting service.   I've had to move to a new host and I get this error when I try to run the code.

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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ../user/dbconfig.php:11)

This is the code:-

<?php
// connect to DATABASE!
include_once('../user/dbconfig.php');

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$options = [
    \PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE            => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
    \PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
    \PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES   => false,
];

$dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname;charset=$charset;port=$port";
try {
    // create a PDO connection with the configuration data
    $conn = new PDO($dsn, $user, $dbpassword, $options);
    
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    // report error message
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

    $ans = $_POST['answer'];
//Setup the filename that our CSV will have when it is downloaded.
if($ans == 'yes'){
    $fileName = 'answers-right.csv';
} elseif ($ans == 'no') {
    $fileName = 'answers-wrong.csv';
}

    // Create our SQL query.
    $sql = 'SELECT ID,email,firstname,lastname,message FROM checks WHERE answer = ?';
    $stmt = $conn->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute([$ans]);
    $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);      // NB: now using fetchAll because there's going to be more than one record

    //Get the column names.
$columnNames = array();
if(!empty($rows)){
    //We only need to loop through the first row of our result
    //in order to collate the column names.
    $firstRow = $rows[0];
    foreach($firstRow as $colName => $val){
        $columnNames[] = $colName;
    }
}
 
//If the file exists and is writeable then delete it
if(is_writable($fileName)){
    //Delete the file
    $deleted = unlink($fileName);
}

//Set the Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers to force the download.
header('Content-Type: application/excel');
header('Content-Type: application/excel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $fileName . '"');

//Open up a file pointer
$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');
 
//Start off by writing the column names to the file.
fputcsv($fp, $columnNames);
 
//Then, loop through the rows and write them to the CSV file.
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    fputcsv($fp, $row);
}
 
//Close the file pointer.
fclose($fp);
?>

Would appreciate some help please?

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16 minutes ago, maxxd said:

../user/dbconfig.php outputs something - check that file.

Thanks for your message - appreciated!  ../user/dbconfig.php is just what it says.  It simply contains the following:-

<?php
// connect to DATABASE!
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'username';
$dbpassword = 'mypassword';
$dbname = 'dbname';
$port = "3306";
$charset = 'utf8';
?> 

What's most confusing is that all worked on my previous web host's servers.   I've simply migrated the whole website so why is it now failing?

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