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  1. POGetting a really annoying error when I want to start a session in php
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    copied!<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3801178/php-headers-already-sent">PHP headers already sent</a><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6005702/php-session-start-error">PHP session_start() error?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I'm getting this error:</p> <blockquote> <p>Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php:27) in C:\xampp\htdocs\connect.php on line 2</p> <p>Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php:27) in C:\xampp\htdocs\connect.php on line 2</p> </blockquote> <p>I'm don't have a clue what this means or how to handle it!! ANY help will be very appreciated!</p> <p>Here is my 2 files that "causes" the problem:</p> <p><strong>connect.php</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php session_start(); $server = 'localhost'; $username = 'root'; $password = ''; $database = 'mydatabase'; if(!mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '')) { exit('Error: could not establish database connection'); } if(!mysql_select_db($database)) { exit('Error: could not select the database'); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>index.php</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt; ShareLink &lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" href="css/ui.totop.css" /&gt; &lt;script src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="js/easing.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="js/jquery.ui.totop.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $(document).ready(function() { var defaults = { containerID: 'moccaUItoTop', // fading element id containerHoverClass: 'moccaUIhover', // fading element hover class scrollSpeed: 1200, easingType: 'linear' }; $().UItoTop({ easingType: 'easeOutQuart' }); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.0/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;?php include 'connect.php'; include 'header.php'; $sql = "SELECT categories.cat_id, categories.cat_name, categories.cat_description, COUNT(topics.topic_id) AS topics FROM categories LEFT JOIN topics ON topics.topic_id = categories.cat_id GROUP BY categories.cat_name, categories.cat_description, categories.cat_id"; $result = mysql_query($sql); if(!$result) { echo 'The categories could not be displayed, please try again later.'; } else { if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) { echo '&lt;br/&gt;'; echo '&lt;h3&gt;Welcome to ShareLink! Here you can rate and share links with other users.&lt;/h3&gt;'; echo '&lt;br/&gt;'; echo 'Please &lt;a href="signup.php"&gt;&lt;b&gt;register&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="signin.php"&gt;&lt;b&gt;log in&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to start sharing your links...'; echo '&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;'; } else { //prepare the table echo '&lt;table border="1"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Category&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Last topic&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;'; while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo '&lt;tr&gt;'; echo '&lt;td class="leftpart"&gt;'; echo '&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="category.php?id=' . $row['cat_id'] . '"&gt;' . $row['cat_name'] . '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;' . $row['cat_description']; echo '&lt;/td&gt;'; echo '&lt;td class="rightpart"&gt;'; //fetch last topic for each cat $topicsql = "SELECT topic_id, topic_subject, topic_date, topic_cat FROM topics WHERE topic_cat = " . $row['cat_id'] . " ORDER BY topic_date DESC LIMIT 1"; $topicsresult = mysql_query($topicsql); if(!$topicsresult) { echo 'Last topic could not be displayed.'; } else { if(mysql_num_rows($topicsresult) == 0) { echo 'no topics'; } else { while($topicrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($topicsresult)) echo '&lt;a href="topic.php?id=' . $topicrow['topic_id'] . '"&gt;' . $topicrow['topic_subject'] . '&lt;/a&gt; at ' . date('d-m-Y', strtotime($topicrow['topic_date'])); } } echo '&lt;/td&gt;'; echo '&lt;/tr&gt;'; } } //rate the link //echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rate this link&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } //include 'footer.php'; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Like I said, I really need to get this working so your help will mean a lot!</p>
 

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