Columnizing

[The-Ensemble]

I've NO idea what I am doing wrong here.

PHP Code:

$counter = 0;

$result = mysql_query("query");

while ($category = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

$columncount = '3';
$counter++;

$categoryname = $category['catname'];
$catid = $category['catid'];
$catdesc = $category['catdesc'];

eval('$cats .= "' . fetch_template('template') . '";');

if ($counter == $columncount)
{
echo '</tr><tr>';
$counter = 0;
}

} 


It resets the counter to zero yet won't print </tr><tr> I've tried dump it with

PHP Code:

?> <?php

tags and that did nothing, I don't get what I've done wrong for it to not work. In theory it should all be working fine, but its not.

NOTE: I cut out the template name and query because they aren't really relevant they both work perfectly and this is a snippet of the overal code the rest of it isn't relevant to this part (or even executed yet) hence why I haven't posted it.