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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:06:21+00:00

I’m just trying to put together a simple HTML email confirming an order to

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I’m just trying to put together a simple HTML email confirming an order to my database.

My $message looks a little like:

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Whatever</title>
</head>
<body>

etc etc
</body>
</html>
";

What i want to do within the $message HTML is make a call to my database which will return rows something like:

$emailinfo=mysql_fetch_assoc($result) or die(mysql_error());

To which i can then use in my $message along the lines of:

<p><?php echo $emailinfo['customername'];?></p>

There’s nothing wrong with my query or my tables etc, the problem i’m having and need help with is getting the results from mysql_fetch_assoc into my $message html.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Dan

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do something like this:

    Example:

    $message = <<<END
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Whatever</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>{$emailinfo['customername']}</p>
  </body>
</html>
END;

    There are several other ways to achieve this. For more information, see http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php.

    Loop example:

    <?php

while ( $emailinfo = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) )
{
  // The "END;" must be at the start of the line (e.g. no white spaces before it).
  $message = <<<END
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Whatever</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <p>{$emailinfo['customername']}</p>
      </body>
    </html>
END;

  echo $message;
}
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