pho - session_start() problem

[wheres me jumpa]

php - session_start() problem

Ive the following in a php file

<?php

session_start();


?>

No other information is sent before the function, Ive used it before with no problems on other projects. However when I try use it now, two hyperlinks are displayed at the top of the page with the function name. A user id is meant to be stored in a session variable but this does not happen as the function to start session variables doesnt seem to be enabled.

Ive never come across this problem before, any ideas?

 

[louie]

a look at the complete code should help. Anyhow the session_start(); should be the first line of code:

<?php session_start(); 
 
//the rest of the code here
?>

 

[wheres me jumpa]

I have nothing before the PHP statements and then goes in the HTML code after, ie doctype, head etc.

 

[louie]

have you got a link for that page?

 

[wheres me jumpa]

Ive attached an image. Cant link as it has add, edit and delete functions working.

 

[georgiecasey]

Did you view the source of that page to see if it is a PHP error message that can't be seen?

 

[louie]

change to this and see how is doing:

<?php if( !isset( $_SESSION ) ) { session_start(); }//session_start(); 
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
//rest of the code
 
?>

 

[wheres me jumpa]

Argh, blank space! Found an answer here:

http://drupal.org/node/11890

As georgiecasey suggested there was a hidden error in the source. This pointed to something being processed before session_start and all that was there was a blank line!

Thanks for the help,

Jumpa