“An error occurred while handling another error: yii\web\HeadersAlreadySentException”

Question

I am trying to submit a comment on a guestbook application based on the Yii 2 Framework. On localhost on my PC works everything fine, but on the shared hosting when I want t

Answer 1

Since Yii 2.0.14 you cannot echo in a controller. A response must be returned:

public function actionAdd_comment() {
    $model = new \app\models\Comments();
    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $model->validate()) {
        $model->comment_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        if ($model->save()) {
            return 'Thanks for your comment.';
        } else {
            return 'Failed!';
        }
    }
}

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You may also call exit at the end of your method to prevent further processing or wrap your code with ob_start() and ob_get_clean(), if you're not able to avoid echo.

public function actionAdd_comment() {
    $model = new \app\models\Comments();
    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $model->validate()) {
        $this->someMagicWithEcho();
        exit;
    }
}

or

public function actionAdd_comment() {
    $model = new \app\models\Comments();
    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $model->validate()) {
        ob_start();
        $this->someMagicWithEcho();
        return ob_get_clean();
    }
}