Code question: set variable = to logic?

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Well what I'm trying to do is get the table structure.. not so much the echos, but I need to let the code execute to go through the WHILE loop and pull data from the database. For each new line of data, it adds a <tr><td>. Since this data changes for each order, I need to have it all execute first, then get that data and then use

so now $blahblah actually equals '<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr>';

$contents[] = array('text' => $blahblah); 

so that it appends the table to the contents array. I will try the .= method to add to the blah blah using normal logic parsing tho.