Comments on: Trailing Whitespace Causes a Session to be Destroyed in CakePHP

By: Chunara

Chunara — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:06:10 +0000

I have solved that problem in my project by only writing

$this->Session->start();

Before the read the session value for authentication. I suggest you also that u also try it.

By: Tim Banks

Tim Banks — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:58:03 +0000

Thank you so much. I was banging my head on this for so long and couldn’t find an answer. I appreciate it.

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:25:57 +0000

Hey, thanks for taking the time to write about this problem. This would have driven me crazy for quite some time.

By: Omi: Dynamic Interactions Manager | CakePHP: Check your trailing whitespace

Omi: Dynamic Interactions Manager | CakePHP: Check your trailing whitespace — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:43:37 +0000

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By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:33:28 +0000

Hi Omi,
IIRC I’ve used CakePHP 1.2. There is no need to file a bug, because it’s not a CakePHP bug. It is a result of the fact that php prints out everything that isn’t surrounded by the tags and it must send headers before he does so, and a PHP session can’t be created once the headers were sent. This is just one design flaw that we’ll have to live with.

By: Omi Chowdhury

Omi Chowdhury — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:23:24 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post, I had the exact same problem.

Maybe you should look into filing a bug?
Maybe it’s not a problem in 1.2, I’ll look into it.