Hello,

I’m having trouble activating PHP scripts on my testing server. (localhost) I have Apache, PHP and MySql installed and I get the “If this works we really did it” returned to me that is supposed to indicate that the three programmes are working.

At the moment I am trying to get a login page to work. (Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development, Chapter 11 page 322). I have the three pages completed ‘template.php’, ‘auth.inc.php’ and ‘login.php’. However when I launch my template page I get this information at the top of the login.php page that appears.

Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start () in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\auth.inc.php on line 2

I can fill in the username and password, hit enter and then get that same message again.

I can run those same files on my remote server without any problems at all, so there does not appear to be anything wrong with the files. It’s just on my localhost where I have difficulty so it must have something to do with the local installation or configure files but I’ve gone through them several times and can’t find anything.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Peter

Check php.ini, is session.auto_start set to 1 or 0?

Also make sure you haven't called session_start() more than once on the same page.

hth,

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
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Hello,
Thank-you for responding. I checked php.ini session.auto_start and it was set to '0'. I tried it at '1', but it didn't make any difference so I changed it back to '0' I checked to make sure that I don't have session_start more than once on a page.

What I do have:

At the top of the auth.inc.php page is:

session_start();
if ($_SESSION['logged'] != 1)


At the top of the login.php page is:

session_start();
$_SESSION['logged'] = 0;

In addition: the login guards a search page which has a php search engine. Again this works just fine on the remote server but the search function will not work on localhost?

Thank-you again, Peter