PHP PDO send e-mail code only sends if text-only - need to send HTML

Question

I'm making this code that (1) moves records from one table to another (in the same database), (2) sends the contents of table 1 to a pre-determined e-mail, and (3) delete the contents of table 1 - simulating an "add to cart" feature.

My problem is that the code below will only be successful in sending the e-mail if $headers is not sent on mail(). However, I need to send the table contents as HTML or at least allow for

for the different records. If by any chance the e-mail isn't sent, then the delete part of the code isn't executed either. what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Modified code (that works if I DON'T send $headers )

 <?php include '../config/database.php'; date_default_timezone_set('CET'); $date = date('Ymd H:i:s'); $query = "INSERT INTO claims_archive (t20pctID, total_amount, user_id, sent) SELECT t20pctID, total_amount, user_id, @date FROM cart WHERE t20pctID LIKE '%sony%'"; $stmt = $con->prepare($query); if ($stmt->execute()) { $query = "SELECT t.t20pctID, t.main_artist, t.track_title, t.original_album, c.total_amount FROM cart c LEFT JOIN tblclaims t ON t.t20pctID = c.t20pctID WHERE t.t20pctID LIKE '%sony%' ORDER BY t.main_artist"; $stmt=$con->prepare($query); $stmt->execute(); $to = "testmail2@gmail.com"; $subject = "Test"; $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\\r\\n"; $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\\r\\n"; $headers .= "From: Test <testmail1@mail.com>" . "\\r\\n"; $body = "Sent on: ". $date . "-\\r\\n"; while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) { extract($row); $body .= "Track title: ".$row ["track_title"]. "-"; } $success = mail($headers, $to, $subject, $body); if ($success) { $query_delete = "DELETE FROM cart WHERE t20pctID LIKE '%sony%'"; $stmt = $con->prepare($query_delete); $stmt->execute(); header('Location: cart.php?action=sent'); } else { header('Location: cart.php?action=sent_failed'); } } else { header('Location: cart.php?action=sent_failed'); } include 'layout_foot.php'; ?> 

Original code

 <?php include '../config/database.php'; date_default_timezone_set('CET'); $date = date('Ymd H:i:s'); $query = "INSERT INTO claims_archive (t20pctID, total_amount, user_id, sent) SELECT t20pctID, total_amount, user_id, @date FROM cart WHERE t20pctID LIKE '%sony%'"; $stmt = $con->prepare($query); if ($stmt->execute()) { //header('Location: cart.php?action=sent'); //please disregard this line as I forgot to remove it when I wrote this post. $query = "SELECT t.t20pctID, t.main_artist, t.track_title, t.original_album, c.total_amount FROM cart c LEFT JOIN tblclaims t ON t.t20pctID = c.t20pctID WHERE t.t20pctID LIKE '%sony%' ORDER BY t.main_artist"; $stmt=$con->prepare($query); $stmt->execute(); $to = "testmail2@gmail.com"; $subject = "Test"; $headers = "Test <testmail1@mail.com>". "\\r\\n". "MIME-Version: 1.0" ."\\r\\n". "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" ."\\r\\n"; $body = "Sent on: ". $date . "-"; while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) { extract($row); $body .= "Track title: ".$row ["track_title"]. "-"; } $success = mail($to, $subject, $body); if ($success) { header('Location: cart.php?action=sent'); } else { header('Location: cart.php?action=sent_failed'); } $query_delete = "DELETE FROM cart WHERE t20pctID LIKE '%sony%'"; $stmt = $con->prepare($query_delete); $stmt->execute(); } else { header('Location: cart.php?action=sent_failed'); } include 'layout_foot.php'; ?> 

Answer 1

Your delete code will not be executed in any case since your are redirecting before this code run.

1. Remove header('Location: cart.php?action=sent'); written just below to if ($stmt->execute()) { .

2. Place your delete code in if($success) condition before header.

3. Update $headers variable with below code and include it into your mail function:

    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\\r\\n"; $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\\r\\n"; $headers .= 'From: Test <testmail1@mail.com>' . "\\r\\n"; 

Answer 2

This

$success = mail($headers, $to, $subject, $body);

has not the right parameter order ...

See http://php.net/manual/de/function.mail.php The correct signature is this:

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message 
         [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

so

$success = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);