Session variable errors

[fogofogo]

Hello All,
I have a page that passes a session variable to another page which is then used in an if/else statement. For some reason itsa giving me error messages, and I'm not sure whats up with it.
Heres the page that creates the variable

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<?php
session_start(); // start session
$_SESSION['name'] = 'sport';
?>

and heres the page with the if else statment :

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name'];
//$name = 'Jester';
if ( $name == 'sport' ) { ?>
<table>stuff in here</table>
<? } else { ?>
<table>stuff in here</table>
<? } ?>

and finally - here are the error messages that I am getting :

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at c:\wamp\www\work\hebbingo\site\test.php:11) in c:\wamp\www\work\hebbingo\site\test.php on line 13

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at c:\wamp\www\work\hebbingo\site\test.php:11) in c:\wamp\www\work\hebbingo\site\test.php on line 13

As you've guessed, I'm pretty new to this so I have probably missed something basic - any ideas?

Cheers

Fogo

[grahame]

Your session_start sends our a cookie in the header of the response page and so it must come before any HTML output at all. Move this code to the very top of your PHP file and ensure that the < of the <?php is in row 1, column 1, and it should get rid of the problem. If you need this code to generate outputs, they store those ouputs into a variable and print it out later on.

[fogofogo]

sweet - thanks man