Jack Born On Marketing, Online Business, and PHP Code

I recently saw a post in the forums for WordPress where someone was trying to add someone else’s php code to their themes. The code started off by setting a cookie. It was correctly commented in the source code to

…put this before any html

The reason being that to set a cookie, there must be no information sent to the browser yet. This is also true of other header(); php commands.

So, how can we put the script where we want, without having a whole bunch of errors thrown on the page?
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When I first fired up WordPress 1.5.1.2 I almost gave up on it prematurely because the new ‘Pages’ feature seemed to require two unacceptable options if I was to use permalinks (for more user-friendly urls):

• chmod .htaccess to world writable
• update .htaccess every time I wanted to add a new ‘page’

After some thorough searching through the forums, I came across some tips that solved the issue and made it possible to add pages without changing .htacess one bit.
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