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I am new to PHP, I practised PHP setcookie() just now and failed.
http://localhost/test/index.php
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> <?php $value = 'something from somewhere'; setcookie("TestCookie", $value); ?> </body> </html> http://localhost/test/view.php
<?php // I plan to view the cookie value via view.php echo $_COOKIE["TestCookie"]; ?> But I failed to run index.php, IE warning like this.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php:9) in C:\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 12 I enabled my IE 6 cookie no doubt.
Is there anything wrong on my procedure above? Thank you.
WinXP OS and XAMPP 1.7.3 used.
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The warning is clear.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php:9) in C:\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 12
Cookies are sent in the HTTP response header. Since the HTML content already started, you cannot go back to the header and add the cookie.
From http://php.net/setcookie:
setcookie() defines a cookie to be sent along with the rest of the HTTP headers. Like other headers, cookies must be sent before any output from your script (this is a protocol restriction). This requires that you place calls to this function prior to any output, including
<html>and<head>tags as well as any whitespace.
Move that setcookie statement before any HTML appears:
<?php $value = 'something from somewhere'; setcookie("TestCookie", $value); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> .... Cookies are sent in the headers of the transmission of the HTTP page. Once you give some output, you cannot modify these anymore.
The problem in your case lies in you outputting some of the HTML-document before trying to set the cookie.
There are a few ways to solve it; one of which is setting the cookie prior to outputting anything on the page like so
<?php $value = 'something from somewhere'; setcookie("TestCookie", $value); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Alternatively, you could buffer your output so that nothing gets written until you explicitly tell it to
<?php ob_start(); // Initiate the output buffer ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> <?php $value = 'something from somewhere'; setcookie("TestCookie", $value); ?> </body> </html> <?php ob_end_flush(); // Flush the output from the buffer ?> For more information on this last approach, take a look at the ob_start and ob_end_flush functions.
It might be useful to read about setcookie, too.
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