putting a list of data into 3 columns?

Hi, I would like to display a list of products from a MySQL database in 3 columns. as shown below: Product A Product D Product G Product B Product E Product H Product C Product F The problem I have is I don't know how many products there will be, so I can't just print out the first 3, start new column, print out next three, start new column, print out rest, end table. I presume I will have to count the number of results, then use this to wok out how many have to go in the first column etc. As I have only recently started using PHP / MySQL I am not sure how this should be done, has anybody done this (or something similar) so that I could look at the relevant code. Many thanks for your help, Donald