Display search results in multiple tables on same web page

[brainonastick]

I have built a web page that shows all of our current members when opened in a browser. However they are in one long list and I want the data to display in 3 columns across the page.

Is there a way to make an HTML table display a single column of data in several format columns. Eg data results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 displayed as

1 4 7

2 5 8

3 6 9

Failing that I can build separate tables to display different chunks of the search data. How do I do this in PHP?

Cheers,

Steven