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Doc Bug #21391 header page example bogus
Submitted: 2003-01-03 08:17 UTC Modified: 2003-01-03 09:30 UTC
From: goba@php.net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: n/a
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-03 08:17 UTC] goba@php.net 
The example on http://php.net/header:

| <?php header ("Content-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio"); ?>
| // Broken, note the blank line above

Is bogus, because whitespace before and after examples is stripped off, so the example should be modified to have a different error case presented.

Ie:

| <html>
| <?php header ("Location: http://www.example.com/"); ?>
| // Broken, note the script output above

I cannot do this myself now...

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 [2003-01-03 09:22 UTC] tularis@php.net 
I agree that the example is a little bit faulty, but let me explain what is ment there IMHO:

You should not send any output before the header() calls, blanc lines before <?php also count as output, and thus break your script.

I will change it in the docs though
 [2003-01-03 09:30 UTC] tularis@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

because it seems that empty lines before <?php aren't recognised in the 
<![CDATA[

I added a echo ' ';
before the header(), though a little different, it serves the same cause
 
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