Warning Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

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Happens when your script tries to send a HTTP header to the client but there already was output before, which resulted in headers to be already sent to the client.

Possible Causes :

Print, echo: Output from print and echo statements will terminate the opportunity to send HTTP headers. The application flow must be restructured to avoid that.
Raw HTML areas: Unparsed HTML sections in a .php file are direct output as well. Script conditions that will trigger a header() call must be noted before any raw blocks.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php
     // Too late for headers already.

Whitespace before <?php for “script.php line 1” warnings: If the warning refers to output in line 1, then it’s mostly leading whitespace, text or HTML before the opening <?php token.

<?php
# There's a SINGLE space/newline before <? - Which already seals it.

Reference from SO answer by Mario

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