wordpress wp_signon function not working

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I am using wp_signon() function to login the user. I am doing this like

$creds = array();

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$creds['user_login'] = $username;

$creds['user_password'] = $password;

$creds['remember'] = true;

$user = wp_signon( $creds, false );

i want to send user to home page after login.

But i Am facing following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at E:xampphtdocswpmoodlewp-contentthemestwentytenheader.php:12) in E:xampphtdocswpmoodlewp-includespluggable.php on line 690.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. wp_signon() needs to run before you’ve sent any of your actual page to the browser.

    This is because part of what wp_signon() does is to set your authentication cookies. It does this by outputting a “Set-Cookie: …” header — if you look at line 690 of pluggable.php, where your error comes from, you’ll see that that line sets a cookie.

    So, because wp_signon() outputs headers, you can’t already have sent any content — because headers must always be output before content.

    However, the error indicates that you’ve already sent some output — on line 12 of header.php, presumably some of the first HTML of the standard WordPress theme.

    This basically indicates that you need to move your wp_signon() call to somewhere earlier in the WordPress processing, so it has a chance to output its headers before any page content is sent.

  2. If someone needs it, here is my solution:

    function custom_login() {
    if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
        $login_data = array();
        $login_data['user_login'] = sanitize_user($_POST['username']);
        $login_data['user_password'] = esc_attr($_POST['password']);

        $user = wp_signon( $login_data, false );

        if ( is_wp_error($user) ) {
            echo $user->get_error_message();
        } else {    
            wp_clear_auth_cookie();
            do_action('wp_login', $user->ID);
            wp_set_current_user($user->ID);
            wp_set_auth_cookie($user->ID, true);
            $redirect_to = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
            wp_safe_redirect($redirect_to);
            exit;
        }
    }
}

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'custom_login' );