Sending items fetched by while loop from mysql database in email - php

Question

Need some help.
I am trying to create a script that sends an html email to a shopper with a list of all the orderd items. I want the items fetched from the database to be stored in a single variable so that I can embed it in the message variable of mail() function. Or Just the Items fetched to be embeded in the email.
Have tried the code below but it only displays 1 item and not all that are in the loop. How can I do it?
I'll be grateful for your help.
$message3 = "
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor='#A8CE58'><td><b>ITEMS ORDERED</b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table border='' style='margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top:10px; padding: 1px;border-right: : 1px solid #000;'>
<tr align='left'>
<th>---</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Qty</th>
<th>Total</th>
</tr>";
$ress= mysqli_query($server, "SELECT * FROM ordered_products WHERE session='$session'");
mysqli_data_seek($ress, 0);
while($colms=mysqli_fetch_array($ress, MYSQLI_NUM))
{
$message4 =
"
<tr align='left'>
<td><img src='e_images/$colms[8]' height='auto' width='50px'></td>
<td>$colms[2]</td>
<td >$colms[9]</td>
<td>ksh.$colms[5]</td>
</tr>";
}
$message = "$message3". $message4;

Answer 1

You need to concatenate the string
$message4 = '';
while($colms=mysqli_fetch_array($ress, MYSQLI_NUM)) {
$message4 .= //your html
}
What you doing now is overwrite the value of $message4 each time in the loop
With
.=
You solve this. Don't forget to declare the variable before the loop, else you will get a warning from PHP.