How can PHP beginners effectively implement code to display database results in multiple columns?

To display database results in multiple columns, PHP beginners can use a loop to fetch the data from the database and then use HTML and CSS to structure the output into columns. One way to achieve this is by using a combination of PHP's `fetch_assoc()` function to retrieve the data and HTML tables to display the results in multiple columns. 

<?php
// Connect to database
$connection = mysqli_connect("localhost", "username", "password", "database");

// Check connection
if ($connection === false) {
    die("Error: Could not connect. " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

// Query to fetch data from database
$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);

// Display data in multiple columns
echo "<table>";
$counter = 0;
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    if ($counter % 3 == 0) {
        echo "<tr>";
    }
    echo "<td>" . $row['column_name'] . "</td>";
    $counter++;
    if ($counter % 3 == 0) {
        echo "</tr>";
    }
}
echo "</table>";

// Close connection
mysqli_close($connection);
?>

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