I've released a new commercial extension that will loop through a recordset and display records either horizontally or vertically. I have had a lot of requests to do something like this in all server languages, but for now I have released the PHP/MySQL version.

The original Horizontal Looper looped through records from left to right, like this:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

The new version will do either horizontal or vertical looping:

1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9

The new extension also allows you to use form variables, url variables, or any other type of dynamic data to set the count of rows and columns displayed.

More information can be found at http://www.tom-muck.com/extensions/help/HorizontalVerticalLooperHelp/index.cfm