Display results in multiple colums

[mdmogren]

I am pulling some info from a mysql table, checking some logic, and displaying in on a page. The way this is written now it shows all of the items in a one column table, I simply want to break it up into multiple columns (ideally by specifying say 20 items per column). I know I need a counter and a loop but I'm just not sure how it all fits in with my existing program. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here is my code

$result2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM propertyids ORDER BY propertyname ASC");
while($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2)){
${'resp'.$row2['id']} = curl_multi_getcontent(${'ch'.$row2['id']});
${'status'.$row2['id']} = strpos(${'resp'.$row2['id']},$httpvar);
if(${'status'.$row2['id']} === false) {
echo "<tr><td>";
echo "<img src='images/down.png'> <a href='" . $row2['primaryurl'] . "' target='_blank'>" . $row2['propertyname'] . "</a>";
echo "</td></tr>";
}
else {
echo "<tr><td>";
echo "<img src='images/up.png'> <a href='" . $row2['primaryurl'] . "' target='_blank'>" . $row2['propertyname'] . "</a>";
echo "</td></tr>";
}
}
echo "</td></table>";

[Pikachu2000]

Take a look at this thread: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=95426.0

[mdmogren]

This mostly makes sense to me but I'm still not sure where to put in which pieces of code, if someone could do the work for me or explain in a little more detail it would be greatly appreciated. Not trying to be lazy but I've been messing with this for hours and I know someone who knows what they're doing can probably type it up in 3 mins.

[mdmogren]

Update: Just needed to walk away and clear my head, ran an errand and came back and this was easy

 

Not quite what I expected, it goes:

 

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

 

 

When I was more going for:

 

1 4 7

2 5 8

3 6 9

 

But it works

 

Thanks