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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:46:22+00:00

In my PHP page, I am extracting a bunch of variables from the URL,

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In my PHP page, I am extracting a bunch of variables from the URL, and formatting their output into a nice HTML table. One section in the table needs to be dynamically created, dependent upon what was ordered on the previous webpage. Finally, I’m using the $mail function to send the HTML table with all the info to an email recipient.

The table works great, EXCEPT for the dynamic section with the while loop. The compiler is getting confused because my syntax is wrong. I suspect this is because my code is inside the $message’…’ variable. Any advice?

<?php
// Extracting the variables from URL
$params = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

// Placing the variables into $array
$array=array();
parse_str($params,$array);

// Identifying the length of the main array and creating an array of KEYS
$keys = array_keys($array);
$keysCount = count($keys);

// And creating an array of corresponding values
$values = array_values($array);

$to = "steve@dutchlandfrozenfoods.com";
$subject = "NEW EUROCLASSIC ORDER";
$message = '
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>EuroClassic Fine Family of Pastries - Ordering</title>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#F0EFEE">
<table id="hor-minimalist-b" summary="Customer Information">
<thead>
    <tr>
        <th scope="col">Customer Contact:</th>
        <th scope="col">Shipping To:</th>
    </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>' . $values[0] . '</td>
        <td>' . $values[1] . '</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>' . $values[2] . '</td>
        <td>' . $values[3] . '</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>' . $values[4] . '</td>
        <td>' . $values[5] . '</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td>' . $values[6] . '</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<table id="hor-minimalist-b" summary="Order Details">
<thead>
    <tr>
        <th scope="col">Product:</th>
        <th scope="col">Item Code:</th>
        <th scope="col">Quantity:</th>
        <th scope="col">Ext Price:</th>
    </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
while ($i = 13; $i < $keysCount-3; $i = $i+2;) 
{
    <tr>
    <td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>
    $i = $i+1;
    <td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>
    $i = $i+1;
    <td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>
    $i = $i+1;
    <td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>
    </tr>
}   
</tbody>
</table>

</BODY>
</HTML>
';

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "To:Steve <steve@dutchlandfrozenfoods.com>\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Prepare the tbody in a variable before.

    $tbody = '';
while ($i = 13; $i < $keysCount-3; $i = $i+2;) {
    $tbody .= '<tr><td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>';
    $i = $i+1;
    $tbody .= '<td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>';
    $i = $i+1;
    $tbody .= '<td>' . $values[$i] . '</td>';
    $i = $i+1;
    $tbody .= '<td>' . $values[$i] . '</td></tr>';
}

    And then:

    $message  = "...<tbody>" . $tbody . "</tbody> ....";

    But I must say, the logic here isn’t understandable, and if something changes, for example, count of columns, code could become quite hard to maintain.

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