Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/17/83 11:53

walterbyrd wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>
>>But why would you want to send data - then immediately redirect the
>>client to another page anyway? They'd never see the data you output.
>>
>
>
> It is still in development. I was thinking I would ask the user to hit
> return, or create a form that is -sort of- a message box, with an OK
> button.
>
> Is output impossible with php? Or is it impossible to output something,
> then change the header later? I doesn't seem like it would all that
> uncommon, and it doesn't seem like it should be all that difficult.
>

It's impossible to send a header after ANY OUTPUT has been sent to the
client. No echos, no HTML - not even a DOCTYPE or even whitespace.

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