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confused by ecart error on checkout

Thread began 4/30/2012 4:31 pm by Christopher West | Last modified 5/01/2012 12:31 pm by Jason Byrnes | 1470 views | 5 replies |

Christopher WestCommunity Expert

confused by ecart error on checkout

Hi, I was just going through the pages on my website. I had logged in as an admin. (this test was after just logining in (so not adding anything to cart so thats empty).

if I were to go to the checkout page (which gives me access once logged in) I get the following error message at the top of my site:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/28/d402258082/htdocs/projects/dinky/checkout.php:80) in /homepages/28/d402258082/htdocs/projects/dinky/checkout.php on line 101


I checked onthe checkout.php file and the line in question relates to:

<?php
// WA eCart Redirect
if ($DinkyCart->redirStr != "") {
header("Location: ".$DinkyCart->redirStr);
}
?>

I just wanted an understanding of this error message so that I can fix it - as obviously dont want customers to see error messages like this if they were to login and snoop to the checkout page without ordering anything to the cart.

kind regards

Chris

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the headers already sent error message is caused by output to the page between php code blocks.

see this thread for details:
showthread.php?t=19285

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

Hey Jason, thanks, I checked out the link and then went back to my code and there werent any spaces. However I tried something else. I had 4 code blocked together down the page and decided to move them to the top of the page - 2 code blocks were automated by ecart and the other 2 were session variables I created (my session variables were before the ecart code blocks) I uploaded did the exact same tests as before and this time success the problem is gone :) but I would like to find out more why in the thread you gave me that spaces would also cause this error - and why did my method fix the problem (unless somehow by me moving the code blocks to the top i somehow had space or line breaks before and so now i dont. its all very confusing but interesting :)

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the error is caused by any output between code blocks that comes before the session_start() or header() functions.

a space is output,

so is a blank line

so is an html comment or HTML code.

the only thing I can say about the change you made, is that it removed the output that was causing the error. I cant really tell why without seeing the original code in the original PHP file.

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

well you made me re look at my code so thats what helped in fixing the issue. im wondering if you would be at all interested in seeing the before and after files to see for yourself. as i would be interested myself to find out from you if I had missed out something, but then without knowing fixed it.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

if you need specifics on what caused the error, i would need a copy of the original page, no need to send the fixed page.

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