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PHP

Adam Soucie
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Adam Soucie
Courses Plus Student 8,710 Points
Posted by Adam Soucie
Adam Soucie
Courses Plus Student 8,710 Points

Redirecting After a Form Submission - Not functioning

Every time I try to redirect using the following code, I get a blank page save for the error message below. Anyone able to figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Code:

// SEND THE EMAIL
if($mail->Send())
{
    header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "contact/thanks.php");
    exit;
}

Error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/72/10763172/html/contact/index.php:8) in /home/content/72/10763172/html/contact/index.php on line 92

2 Answers

Adam Soucie
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Adam Soucie
Courses Plus Student 8,710 Points
Adam Soucie
Adam Soucie
Courses Plus Student 8,710 Points

UGH. Found the problem. PHP reeeeeeeeally hates whitespace, even if it's before the file starts for stuff like comments. Grr.

Here's a much more detailed explanation that finally helped me through it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8028957/headers-already-sent-by-php

Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read
2,958 Points
Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read
2,958 Points

Thanks for this! Exactly what I needed! I had a blank line at the top of my php file that was breaking the header redirect.