PHP Forum

**rolda hayes** · 02:20 PM

Hi,

I'm getting this error on certain pages on my site

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at......

Now, I know that I can't send headers after output has been sent but when I put the includes at the top of the page (with no whitespace) the page is rendered all to one side in Internet Explorer...

When I place the PHP code in the <head> section, everything renders fine but I get the error warning....

This is driving me mad. Can anyone offer some advise?

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 02:40 PM

Quote:

when I put the includes at the top of the page (with no whitespace) the page is rendered all to one side in Internet Explorer...

That would indicate there is some output before the DTD in the source.

You probably need to re-order the includes.

**rolda hayes** · 07-23-2010, 02:52 PM

Well I think that I've placed things in a better order....

Can anyone see the error at the top of the page? It looks fine here but browsershots still shows there is a problem.

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 02:55 PM

Code:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html

**rolda hayes** · 07-23-2010, 02:58 PM

2e66??

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 03:24 PM

Byte Order Mark

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...e-problem.html

**rolda hayes** · 07-23-2010, 03:42 PM

Interesting...

Ok, placing the PHP at the top of the page indeed removes the error but Im not sure how to get the page out of "quirk mode"

test page here...

How can I actually SEE the problem? I'm using NotePad++

**rolda hayes** · 07-23-2010, 04:03 PM

SOLVED!

In my include file, I had

<html>
<head>
<title>The Bike Rack Shop - Shopping Basket</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

changed it to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

And (I think) all seems OK

Can you verify this please Chris?

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 04:09 PM

In preferences -> New Document tab -> set Encoding to "UTF8 without BOM" and Check the "Apply to opened ANSII files"

That should get rid of them.

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 04:17 PM

Seems OK, Just the segment markers which won't affect browsers.

**rolda hayes** · 07-23-2010, 04:21 PM

Once again Chris.... Outstanding advise!

This has saved me so many headaches you would not believe!