Getting an error with PHP sessions

Question

I'm writing a page in PHP and having trouble with the session code. Here are my first lines of code:

<?php session_start(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<?php require '/home/fixit/Background/inc.inc'; ?>


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled 1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.css" />
</head>

The problem is, when I upload it I get this error:

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fixit/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/fixit/public_html/index.php on line 1

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/fixit/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/fixit/public_html/index.php on line 1

I've pulled the page source online and found that its putting in a small code prior to my session, just a simple <br />

I'm using Microsoft Expression Web (the first one) to code this out, any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

T_01 · Answer 1 · 2013-07-24T22:42:22.467

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The session_start() method must be called first. Because ira creating a cookie, and this isnt possible after any output. So look if there are any whitespaces, maybe after ?>... these all cann provocate this error...

edited Jul 24 '13 at 22:42

answered Jul 24 '13 at 22:31

T_01

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Did you not see his script... look at line one.. what do you see.. – Sir Jul 24 '13 at 22:36
Yes your right. But maybe hes this site out of another one? I just answered for what does this error mean. – T_01 Jul 24 '13 at 22:39
I have no whitespace at all before the code, so what else can cause this? – Sean Mahoney Jul 24 '13 at 23:30
Hmmm with wich editor are you working? – T_01 Jul 24 '13 at 23:33
Try to create a new page with just this line: and run it. Do you still get the error then? – T_01 Jul 24 '13 at 23:35
I am using microsoft expression web (version 1). – Sean Mahoney Jul 24 '13 at 23:53
I uploaded just and still get the error, and, I've done it with CPanels editor too, which is on the hosting space, and still get the error. – Sean Mahoney Jul 24 '13 at 23:54
Which webspace your using? – T_01 Jul 25 '13 at 20:44

Getting an error with PHP sessions

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