My friend working on his cart needed the output to be in two columns, and since i'm having challenges similar to these all over here is exactly how I accomplished it. 
<code>
&lt;?php

$table_columns = 0; // set a default value so things don't get f-ed up, this may not be necessary tho

while($r = $db->fetch_array($query))
   			{
$Prod_Name = $r['Product_Name'];
$Image_URL = $r['ImageURL'];
$MSRP = $r['MSRP'];
$path = "$Image_URL";
$file = basename($path, ".php");
$ImageCat = "images/thumbs/$file";
$pie = explode("-", $Prod_Name);
?>
&lt;table>
&lt;caption> Products&lt;/caption>
&lt; ?php
if($table_columns == 2){$table_columns = 0;} // set the value back to zero to start a new column 

 
if($table_columns == 0){
echo"&lt;tr>";  // this adds a column
}

echo"&lt;td>";
echo $pie['1'];
echo"&lt;img src=\"$ImageCat\"/>";
echo"Desc";
echo"&lt;/td>";
if($table_columns == 1){
echo""; // this ends the column 
}
$table_columns++;// increment the variable on each pass to make columns
}&lt;/table></code>