Break PHP array into 3 columns

Question

I'm trying to break a PHP array into 3 columns (has to be columns, not rows) so it would look something like this:

Item 1     Item 2     Item 3
Item 4     Item 5     Item 6
Item 7     Item 8     Item 9
Item 10................

The best approach I can think of would be to break the main array into 3 arrays, 1 for each column although I can't work out the best approach to do this - more specifically the criteria I could use to generate the 3 arrays.

Answer 1

I would use this:

$i = 1;
foreach ($array as $value) {
  if ($i % 3 === 0) {
        echo $value . '<br />';
    }
   $i++;
}

Or when using html table:

<table>
<tr>
   <?php 
   $i = 0;
   foreach ($array as $value) {
      if ($i % 3 === 0) {
            echo '</tr><tr>';
        }
      echo "<td>" . $value . "</td>";
      $i++;
   }
   ?>
</tr>
</table>