Warning! Session cannot send seession code;cache limited!

[sangdao]

Having just down loaded osCommerce and feeling adventureous I tried to modify 1 line of code so that United States would pop to the top of the country list. I followed the advice in the tips and tricks article (from the os info page 1)exactly I thought(although I might have made an error adding or deleting a space)..... and it worked! But I got the following error messages which I don't understand (This adventure was my first try at working with code)

Interpretations and adviced eagerly sought! Thank you!

David

www.mulberrywood.com/catalog

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/future7/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/html_output.php:304) in /home/future7/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/future7/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/html_output.php:304) in /home/future7/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

[Arpit]

you cannot display ANYTHING TO THE broswer before the session is intialized... read this http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/41/1.php

[sangdao]

Hi Arpit,

First off thank you so much for your quick response! You are encouraging a beginning coder to keep going! Once I get some of the basics down I think this might even be fun!

I looked at your link and it seemed to exactly match my problem. But on a practical level I could not see what I should do to fix the sessions problem. Would it be possible to look at the code change that I made and make a suggestion as to what and where I should add to fix the problem? The NOW line is what I have now and the BEFORE line is before I started to get creative!

Thank you very much!!!
////
// Creates a pull-down list of countries
function tep_get_country_list($name, $selected = '', $parameters = '') {

NOW:
$countries_array = array(array('id' => '223', 'text' => 'United States'));

BEFORE:
$countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));


$countries = tep_get_countries();

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($countries); $i<$n; $i++) {
$countries_array[] = array('id' => $countries[$i]['countries_id'], 'text' => $countries[$i]['countries_name']);
}

return tep_draw_pull_down_menu($name, $countries_array, $selected, $parameters);
}
?>

[sangdao]

Here is the file location if that helps?

catalog/includes/functions/html_output.php

[Arpit]

rather than trying to hard code the value and then wondering why something else does not work the way it should, try using this,
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2148/