can I still send cookies after I've called session_start()

[lkrubner]

I was trying to set a cookie before I called session_start() and it was
giving me an error. But isn't sessions really just a cookie? Why would
it matter if I sent a cookie before session_start? Can I set them
afterwards?

[DJ Craig]

You *can* set a cookie without calling session_start(). Do you mean a
session variable? You can't do this without calling session_start():
$_SESSION['sessionvar'] = 'value';
But you can do this:
setcookie('cookiename', 'value', time()+36000);
and then read the cookie like this:
$_COOKIE['cookiename'];

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_cookies.asp

[lkrubner]

>You *can* set a cookie without calling session_start(). Do you mean a

session variable? You can't do this without calling session_start():
$_SESSION['sessionvar'] = 'value';

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

[Andy Hassall]

On 21 Jul 2005 08:29:01 -0700, lk******@geocities.com wrote:

I was trying to set a cookie before I called session_start() and it was
giving me an error.
Your post is missing a vital piece of information.
But isn't sessions really just a cookie? Why would
it matter if I sent a cookie before session_start?
It doesn't.
Can I set them afterwards?

Yes, and before.

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[JDS]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:55 -0700, lkrubner wrote:

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

AND WHAT IS THE ERROR????

sheesh

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[lkrubner]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:55 -0700, lkrubner wrote:

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

AND WHAT IS THE ERROR????

This is the error I'm getting:

<b>Warning</b>: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers
already sent in
<b>/home/httpd/vhosts/publicdomainsoftware.org/httpdocs/pdsIncludes/CommandStartSession.php</b>
on line <b>14</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter -
headers already sent in
<b>/home/httpd/vhosts/publicdomainsoftware.org/httpdocs/pdsIncludes/CommandStartSession.php</b>
on line <b>14</b><br />
This is line 14 and 15 of CommandStartSession:

session_start();
session_register();
I used my text editor (RedCrimson) and did a search of all the files in
this project, looking for session_start(). I thought maybe, by
accident, I was calling it twice. But no, it only appears once.

Oddly, when I call session_start(), output buffering is on, so I'm not
sure how I get that error. Later I set a cookie, then I sent a charset
header indicating that the characters are UTF-8, then I end output
buffering.

I thought the output buffering would keep me safe from this kind of
error, but apparently not.

[lkrubner]

>On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:55 -0700, lkrubner wrote:

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

AND WHAT IS THE ERROR????

You can see the problem here:

http://www.publicdomainsoftware.org/

[Jerry Stuckle]

lk******@geocities.com wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:55 -0700, lkrubner wrote:

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

AND WHAT IS THE ERROR????

You can see the problem here:

http://www.publicdomainsoftware.org/

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already
sent in

You're sending <br /> before the session_start call.

You can't send ANYTHING (including a blank line) before the session_start() call.

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[Andy Hassall]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:42:15 -0500, Jerry Stuckle <js*******@attglobal.net>
wrote:

lk******@geocities.com wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:55 -0700, lkrubner wrote:

No, I meant, I was setting a cookie, then calling session_start(), and
I was getting an error. Can I call session_start() and then set a
cookie? I want to set a permanent cookie that will last one million
seconds. I also want sessions.

AND WHAT IS THE ERROR????

You can see the problem here:

http://www.publicdomainsoftware.org/

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already
sent in

You're sending <br /> before the session_start call.

That's part of the PHP error message:

andyh@server:/usr/src/php-5.0.4/main$ nl -ba main.c | grep -2 '<br />'
736 char *append_string =
INI_STR("error_append_string");
737 char *error_format = PG(html_errors) ?
738 "%s<br />\n<b>%s</b>: %s in
<b>%s</b> on line <b>%d</b><br />\n%s"
739 : "%s\n%s: %s in %s on line
%d\n%s";
740 php_printf(error_format,
STR_PRINT(prepend_string), error_type_str, buffer, error_filename,
error_lineno, STR_PRINT(append_string));

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