Create multi-row tables in PHP using MySQL - php

Question

I'm trying to create something like the following:
But my current code has given me:
The part in white is what I get with the code below, and the part in black is what I get when I add in two more <td> rows. The problem is I can't get 3 pieces of data per row to be created - only vertically or horizontally.
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM show_listing");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<table>
<tr>
<td>".$row['name']."'</td>
</tr>
</table>";
}
mysqli_close($con);
It may be simpler than I think but does anyone know how I could do this?

Answer 1

$c = 0;
echo "<table>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
if ($c%3 == 0) {
if ($c) echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
}
echo "<td>".$row['name']."</td>";
$c++;
}
if ($c) echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";

Answer 2

You have the correct idea. You do not want the declaration in the while loop as the result is that you will get multiple tables.
So I moved the table declarations outside of the while loop. I also made the declarations conditional based on the current column. You can now set the variable $columns to however many columns you want.
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM show_listing");
echo "<table>"
$columns=3;
$current_column=1;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
if($current_column==1) {
echo "<tr>";
}
echo "<td>".$row['name']."'</td>";
if($current_column==$columns) {
echo "</tr>";
$current_column=1;
} else
$current_column++;
}
echo "</table>
mysqli_close($con);