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Usually I make a dynamic table using PHP, but because it turned out that I handled the project requires use Smarty as template engine, then finally a direct table generated by Smarty. So PHP is only to issue a query from the database.

Here is the template used to create a dynamic table on Smarty.

<table>
	<tr>
	{assign var=\"numCols\" value=\"6\"}
	{assign var=\"col\" value=\"0\"}
	{section name=element loop=$data}
		{if $col == $numCols}
			</tr><tr>{assign var=\"col\" value=\"0\"}
		{/if}
		<td>{$data[element]}
		</td> {assign var=\"col\" value=\"`$col+1`\"}
	{/section}
	{assign var=\"remainder\" value=\"`$numCols-$col`\"}
	{section name=emptyElement loop=$remainder}
		<td>&nbsp;</td>
	{/section}
	</tr>
</table>

NumCols is the number of columns you want, in the example is “6″, then when the column to be transformed into 7 new row. Hopefully this is useful for you. Happy coding.