Chapter 2

Chudz · July 26th, 2004, 04:26 AM

I am stuck on the session part of chapter 2. I done everything that the books has told me to and i have checked my code over and over again i don't have any errors! can someone help please?

This is what my browser shows when i load movie1.php:

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 3

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 3
Click here to see information about my favourite movie

This is what shows when i load moviesite.php:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\moviesite.php on line 5

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richard.york · July 26th, 2004, 05:17 AM

A parse error indicates a typo in the code. Look around line five for a typo. The other errors will likely go away once you correct the parse error. You can also post a snip of your code here and someone on the list will tell you what's wrong with it.

HTH!

Regards,
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Chudz · July 26th, 2004, 06:16 AM

ok this is my movie1.php file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<?
    session_start();
    $_SESSION['username']="joe12345";
    $_SESSION['authuser']=1;
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?
    $myfavmovie=urlencode("The Life of Brian");
    echo "<a href='http://localhost/moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";
    echo "Click here to see information about my favourite movie";
    echo "</a>";

?>
</body>
</html>

and this is my moviesite.php file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<?
    session_start();
//check to see if user has logged in with a valid password
    if ($_SESSION['authuser']!=1 {
    echo "Sorry you cant enter the site";
    exit();
    }
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>My movie site - <? $_REQUEST['favmovie'] ?></title>
</head>

<body>
<?
    echo "My favourite movie is" ;
    echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'];
    echo "<br>";
    $movierate=5;
    echo "My movie rating for this this movie is: ";
    echo $movierate;
?>
</body>
</html>

I am also use Dreamweaver to do these php files and im using FireFox explorer!

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richard.york · July 26th, 2004, 06:23 AM

You can't have any output before the call to session_start(). session_start() outputs a cookie in the HTTP headers, since you have the DOCTYPE included before the call to session_start() which is what's causing the errors.

Move the DOCTYPE so that it appears after the call to session_start().

Code:

<?
    session_start();
    $_SESSION['username']="joe12345";
    $_SESSION['authuser']=1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Also make sure that you don't have any whitespace, linebreaks before the opening <?php delimiter.

HTH!

Regards,
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Chudz · July 26th, 2004, 07:00 AM

ok thank you :D its all sorted now

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Chudz · July 26th, 2004, 07:53 AM

oh no i have another problem :( can you help me again please!

I am doing the part where you make a cookie which remembers the log on details here is what error i get:

Warning: setcookie() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 2

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 3

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 3

and here is the code for the php file:

<?
    setcookie('username', 'joe', 'time()+60');
    session_start();
    $_SESSION['authuser']=1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
    $myfavmovie=urlencode("The Life of Brian");
    echo "<a href='http://localhost/moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";
    echo "Click here to see information about my favourite movie";
    echo "</a>";

?>
</body>
</html>

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richard.york · July 26th, 2004, 08:03 AM

time() is a function, so you can include that as part of the string. And +60 is an expression so that can't be part of the string either or it wouldn't get evaluated. ;)

setcookie('username', 'joe', time()+60);

That ought to do it.

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Chudz · July 26th, 2004, 08:07 AM

oh i understand thanks :D

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tks001 · February 19th, 2006, 07:09 PM

I am having a similar problem with the first example of setting a cookie. Any help is appreciated!

Here is the error on when loading movie1.php

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:1) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 2
Click here to see information about my favorite movie!

My code for movie1.php is (no leading spaces, etc.):

<?php
setcookie('username', 'Joe', time()+60);
session_start();
$_SESSION['authuser'] = 1;
?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Find my Favorite Movie!</title>

</head>

<body>

    <?php

      //adding this line

      $myfavmovie = urlencode("Life of Brian");

      //changed this line

      echo "<a href='moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";

      echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";

      echo "</a>";

    ?>

</body>

</html>

In php 5.1.2 - I have php.ini options set to(Passing variables w/sessions successful):

session.auto_start = 1
session.cookie_path = /
; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1
;session.save_path = "c:\tmp" [purposely commented out according to 5.1.2 documentation]
; Name of the session (used as cookie name).
session.name = PHPSESSID
; The domain for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_domain =

Ideas please?