login script problem

[elduderino]

Hi,

I have a login script........if the user provides correct login info i creat a session and redirect with the following code:

$_SESSION['first_name'] == $first_name;
	      	    header("location:home.php");

This gives me a headers already sent error.....it says output started on this line:

$_SESSION['first_name'] == $first_name;

How do i fix this?! I need to set the session up and then i need to redirect. The only solution ive come accross is output buffering but it seems clumsy.

Any suggestions?

[jcarouth]

i agree. output buffering is a hack, not a solution.

you need to post more of your code, especially for this particular problem.

any include files that have a closing ?> and possibly a newline or other whitespace after the closing ?> that will cause this error.

[elduderino]

Hi, thanks for the reply

No its not a whitespace issue......if it take this line out:

$_SESSION['first_name'] == $first_name; 

from the two lines above the redirect works fine....the session counts as output....so how the hell do i get around it?!?!

[spikeZ]

Should that be

$_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name; 

....

[AlienDev]

Unless the problem is what spikeZ said (in which case, wouldn't you see a nice big error...?) and you didn't just type it in wrong to SP, only other way of redirecting after output has started is through meta redirects, or JS.

[elduderino]

oh dear....so sorry its been a long day....i was was a combo or spikes post and
forgetting the session_start()....truly schoolboy errors!

Thanks

[spikeZ]

very long day then!!