How to display mysql data in html rows - php

Question

I'm using CodeIgniter and I want to display a list of cities in multiple columns in html like this where i can just adjust the number of items inside the <ul> tag and then generate another <ul> tag for the next column
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City name 1 City name 5 City name 9
City name 2 City name 6 City name 10
City name 3 City name 7
City name 4 City name 8
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I dont know how to make it display like that but here's my current code that just display everything in 1 column.
<ul>
<?php
foreach($row_city as $city):
echo "<li>".anchor("#",$city->city_name)."</li>";
endforeach;
?>
</ul>

Answer 1

You don't need to use tables. Simply use this code:
$i = 0;
echo "<ul>";
foreach($row_city as $city):
if ($i != 0 && $i%4 == 0) {
echo "</ul><ul>";
}
echo "<li>".anchor("#",$city->city_name)."</li>";
$i++;
endforeach;
echo "</ul>";
and just float the lists next to each other.

Answer 2

You can try to display it inside a table like that with that html code:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>
<li>element1</li>
<li>element1</li>
<li>element1</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>element2</li>
<li>element2</li>
<li>element2</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>element2</li>
<li>element2</li>
<li>element2</li>
</ul>
</td>
</table>
And then you must update your code to make it work with more column.
Here an example of php code that show that kind of output:
<table>
<?php
echo '<td><ul>';
$j =4;
for($i = 0; $i<10; $i++ ){
if($j==0){
echo '</ul></td><td><ul>';
$j=4;
}
echo "<li>".$i."</li>";
$j--;
}
echo '</ul></td>';
?>
You can adapt it to your problem (try to replace the for with your foreach).