drupal 6 can we write a php file in drupal which changes the headers

Question

i have written a small code which creates a word document but i got the following errors

require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); global $user;

$fp = fopen("test.doc", 'w+');
$str = "<B>This is the text for the word file created through php programming</B><br>test to create a doc file from php";
ob_start();
    include('index.php');
    $result = ob_get_clean();

fwrite($fp, $result);
    echo "executed";

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.doc"); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header("Content-Length: " . filesize("test.doc")); header("Connection: close");

fclose($fp);

?> warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already comnt by (output started at /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php:6) in /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php on line 19. warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already comnt by (output started at /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php:6) in /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php on line 20. warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already comnt by (output started at /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php:6) in /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php on line 21. warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already comnt by (output started at /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php:6) in /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test_createdoc.php on line 22

i have even remove the white spaces between php tags

Scott Reynen Scott Reynen · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-04T21:07:23

It looks like echo "executed"; sends output before the headers. PHP then stops the headers from sending, because HTTP requires headers to come before output. If removing that doesn't fix it, try commenting out include('index.php'); to test if the output is coming from there.

drupal 6 can we write a php file in drupal which changes the headers

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