Code Related Use PHP output buffering

[Jamie Edwards]

To resolve any "Error: headers already sent" errors

http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Misce...put-Buffering/

[Chris Boulton]

Output buffering is dodgy.

For that to work correctly, you'd have to have the ob_start() line in config.php. Why? So the output buffering starts there. If you had it anywhere else it would not have any effect on empty lines/output in config.php.

Secondly, output buffering holds up the entire page contents from being delivered to the browser until either the end of script execution or ob_flush() is called.

A better solution, albeit slightly more "hacky" is to drop the trailing ?> off any files which are included. For example:

PHP Code:

<?php
$config['db_type'] = "localhost";
....

Not having the trailing ?> causes PHP to think it is still in execution mode for the rest of the file.

[edit] The best solution is to completely stop execution on one of the errors.