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Asked: 2026-05-23T15:37:00+00:00

I get unexplained Headers already sent on line #… error on those 2 lines

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I get unexplained “Headers already sent on line #…” error on those 2 lines that execute “echo …” in the code below.

Simplified version of the case:

<?php
ob_start();

//Initializing FirePHP...
include_once(F_FS_PATH."lib/FirePHPCore/fb.php");
// <--- I've also tried to move the ob_start(), after the FirePHP init,
// <--- instead before it. But it made no difference.
?>
<html>
<div>A lots of HTML (and php) code goes here... Actually my entire page.
FirePHP is also used here many times by multiple invocations
of the function fb('debug text');</div>
</html>

<?php
$all_page_content=ob_get_clean();

if ($GLOBALS["marketing_enabled"])
    echo marketingReplaceContent($all_page_content);
else
    echo $all_page_content;

ob_flush(); flush();

//Do some other non-printing - but slow stuff.
do_the_silent_slow_stuff_Now();

// <--- presumably the php execution ends here.
?>

I cannot understand why FirePHP is trying to do something upon page completion after I print the buffer and flushed it? Or what is it trying? How can I cope with this problem? 🙁

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here’s your problem:

    Headers already sent on line #…

    Thats exaclty what happens when you use FirePHP and echo something beforehand. This might even be a whitespace before the <?php tag. FirePHP sends all its content as a header, and headers can’t be send after any output is made.

    Since I’m sure that you call FirePHP in your do_the_silent_slow_stuff_Now(); method I recommend not to use buffering, flushing and FirePHP at once.

    Either you resign on ob_start() and ob_flush() during the development phase or you call the ob_flush() method after all stuff is done.

    Third possibility would be to seperate your development and live phase by doing something like $development = true; and make your own FirePHP function:

    function my_fb($text) {
    if(!$development)
        fb($text);
}

    and:

    if($development) {
    do_the_silent_slow_stuff_Now();
    ob_flush(); flush();
}
else {
    ob_flush(); flush();
    do_the_silent_slow_stuff_Now();
}

    Hope this helps!

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