Use case for output buffering as the correct solution to "headers already sent"

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Published on 2010-05-27T08:34:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 9:01 UTC
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I see (not just on this site) a lot of question from inexperienced PHP programmers about the infamous "headers already sent... output started at" error, and many people suggest using ouput buffering as a solution.

In my experience I have never found a situation where that error wasn't caused by a flow in the program's logic. Are there cases where output buffering is actually the correct solution?

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