Displaying Two Column Html Table While Php Loop

Am creating a newsletter template that can display news in tabular form, but i want the news to be displayed in two column per row. Please check this url to see what i am talking a

Solution 1:

This will get you most of the way there:

echo'<tr>';
$i = 0;
while(...) {
    if($i > 0 and $i % 2 == 0) {
        echo'</tr><tr>';
    }
    echo'<td>My data</td>';
    $i++;
}
echo'</tr>;

Solution 2:

Use rowspan and colspan html property

<tr><td>A</td><tdcolspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>

Solution 3:

After you do your query you can write this:

<table><?php$rows = 1;
$while($news = @mysql_fetch_array($query)){
  if($rows % 2 != 0){
    echo"<tr><td>" . $news['details'] . "</td>";
  }
  else {
   echo"<td>" . $news['details'] . "</td></tr>";
  }
  $row++;
}

if($rows % 2 != 0){echo"<td>&nbsp;</td></tr>"; }
?></table>

With this code you create a table an initialize a variable with 1, just for checking the number of rows.

Al the end if you have 3 news, the script will complete the row and an empty cell.