How to display records dynamically by columns of the table?

Question

hi to all,
i'm trying to figure out quite a long time now. is it possible to populate html table with records via columns? (because most of us are familiar with rows up to the last record) i do have a pseudocode below:
print ('<table>');
while (!eof) {
if (cnt % 4 == 0)
// breakline w/c means let's have another row since
// we displayed the records 4x now so we need
// another row to continue
else
// continue column generation
cnt++
print ('</table>');
i don't know if this is quite clear... but i do hope you know what my goal is... i have an app that i need to display (like live.com in searching images) to display all the searched items (and then onmouseover it will get big some sort)... but since the records i have are the ff:
CREATE TABLE "ERA_DB"."PARTS"
(     "PARTID" VARCHAR2(15 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "PARTNAME" VARCHAR2(75 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "RETAILPRICE" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "COSTPRICE" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "ACTIVE" NUMBER DEFAULT 1,
     "CATEGORY" VARCHAR2(2 BYTE) DEFAULT 'NA',
     "DESCRIPTION" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
     "TYPE" NUMBER DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL ENABLE,
     CONSTRAINT "PARTS_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("PARTID") ENABLE
i need to display like the ff:
partname
partid
image
description
price
these are inside a box w/ borders (the concept is like live.com in their image search)
thanks so much!

Answer 1

This was written for pear::db but I think it should go pretty similar for ADODB.
$result = $db->query ("SELECT PRODUCT FROM INVENTORY WHERE COMPANY='$_SESSION[company]'");
while ($data1 = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC))
$data2 = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
$data3 = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
$data4 = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
$rows .= " <tr>\n";
$rows .= " <td width=150 align=right>".$data1[PRODUCT]."</td>\n";
$rows .= " <td width=150 align=right>".$data2[PRODUCT]."</td>\n";
$rows .= ' <td width=150 align=right>".$data3[PRODUCT]."</td>\n";
$rows .= " <td width=150 align=right>".$data4[PRODUCT]."</td>\n";
$rows .= " </td>\n";
$rows .= " </tr>\n";
}