Place the data from database to bootstrap - php

Question

I want to get data from the database and write them to the following bootstrap structure: 1 row - 3 columns, 1 row - 3 columns, 1 row - 3 columns.
The following bootstrap structure
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-2">
some content
</div>
<div class="col-sm-2">
some content
</div>
<div class="col-sm-2">
some content
</div>
</div>
I just can not figure out how to construct a cycle. Stuck on this place.
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$counter ++;
if($counter == 1 || $counter % 3 === 0) {
echo '<div class="row">';
}
echo '<div class="col-sm-2">';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["name"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["email"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["comment"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';
if($counter % 3 === 0) {
echo '</div>';
}
}

Answer 1

//$counter should be set out here to 1...
//Start here with row don't have to worry about 1
echo '<div class="row">';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
//Other echo stuff...
//Check if 3 yet
if($counter == 3) {
//reset to 0 cause you will incrment
$counter = 0;
//end and start new div
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
}
$counter ++;
}
//Close it up unless it is always ending on 3?
//Probably want some more checking here somehow
echo '</div>';

Answer 2

$counter = 0;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
if($counter % 3 === 0) {
echo '<div class="row">';
}
echo '<div class="col-sm-2">';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["name"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["email"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["comment"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';
if($counter % 3 === 2) {
echo '</div>';
}
$counter++;
}
//if last row has less then 3 items then close the outer row
if($counter % 3 !== 0) {
echo '</div>';
}
JSfiddle with simulated output for 7 items

Answer 3

This task led to the discovery that before composing algorithms in the code, I need to draw a scheme on a piece of paper. Than test the output on a piece of paper. As a result, I found such a simple solution.
$counter = 0;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$counter ++;
if($counter == 1) {
echo '<div class="row">';
}
echo '<div class="col-sm-2">';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["name"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["email"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="row">';
echo '<p>' . $row["comment"] . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';
if($counter == 3) {
echo '</div>';
$counter = 0;
}
}