Best way to code a catalog page

Im doing a catalog like site that list a bunch of product images, and i want to line them up 3 a row, but im not sure how to code it. I was going to make a div for both float left, and right but i don't think it will work.what do you think?

 

use tables
divide your recordset (you got after database selection) into 3 arrays, and then will generate html table use data from first, second, third

the simpler way is

<table>
<? for ($i=0; $i<$cnt; $i++) { ?>
<tr>
  <td><?=$arr1[$i] ?></td>
  <td><?=$arr2[$i] ?></td>
  <td><?=$arr3[$i] ?></td>
</tr>
<? } ?>
</table>

Code (markup):

 

hmmm sounds like it would work(even though i was told to saty away from tables) i dont get the $arr1[$i] ?> or any of that other strange stuff if you could clear that up i would much appreciate it

 

$arrX - it's arrays of prepared list for each columt

$colnum=3;

$arr=array();
for($i=0; $i<$colnum; $arr[$i++]=array());
$recordset=array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);
$cnt=count($recordset);

$limit=1;
$j=0;
for($i=0;$i<cnt;$i++) {
  if ($i>$limit*$cnt/$colcnt) {
      $limit++;
      $j++;
  }
  $arr[$limit-1][$j++]=$recordset[$i];
}

Code (markup):

after performing you will get $arr[0]=(1,2,3), $arr[1]=(4,5,6) $arr[2]=(7,8)
Sorry, if some mistakes - didn't checked the code but think, the idea is clear