How to add a </tr><tr> automatically after every 2 <td> - php

Question

i am retrieving results from MySQL with PHP based on user search
i want to add a automatically after every 2 s in the result
<?php
include_once("config.php");
isset( $_REQUEST['name'] ) ? $name=$_REQUEST['name'] : $name='';
$name = mysql_real_escape_string( $name );
if (strlen($name) >= 4) {
$sql = "select * from places where speciality like '%$name%'";
$rs = mysql_query( $sql ) or die('Database Error: ' . mysql_error
$num = mysql_num_rows( $rs );
if($num >= 1 ){
echo "<table id='result-table'><tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $rs )){
echo "<td>row[cname]</td>"; //here i want to add </tr><tr> after 2 <td>s
}
}else{
echo "no records found</table>";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Used $i = 1; if ($i % 2 == 0) and $i++;
<?php
include_once ("config.php");
isset ($_REQUEST['name']) ? $name = $_REQUEST['name'] : $name = '';
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($name);
if (strlen($name) >= 4) {
$sql = "select * from places where speciality like '%$name%'";
$rs = mysql_query($sql) or die('Database Error: '.mysql_error $num = mysql_num_rows($rs);
if ($num >= 1) {
$i = 1;
echo "<table id='result-table'><tr>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) {
echo "<td>row[cname]</td>"; //here i want to add </tr><tr> after 2 <td>s
if ($i % 2 == 0)
echo "</tr><tr>";
$i++;
}
}
else {
echo "no records found</table>";
}
}
?>

Answer 2

echo "<table id='result-table'><tr>";
$currentCount = -1;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
{
echo "<td>row[cname]</td>";
$currentCount = ($currentCount + 1) % 2;
if($currentCount == 1)
{
echo '</tr><tr>';
}
}

Answer 3

I suggest not putting them into a table at all; instead simply put them into <div> elements, with float:left and width:50% styles.
If you must put them into a table, and you want to do it the way you asked, you can use PHP's modulo operator (%) to divide the current record number by 2 and get the remainder. If it's 1, then add the <tr> tag:
if(++$rowNum % 2) {print "</tr><tr>";}