Tutto file liscio come l'olio.
Ringrazio vivamente Vaibal(l'autore della pillola)
e Red Wolf che me l'ha consigliata.

Codice PHP:
<?
                                            
//partiamo dalla query per selezionare i dati 
                                             
                                            
$result nsofferte(0,8);
                                            
//con mysql_num_rows contiamo i risultati ottenuti. 
                                            //questo valore ci servirà per la paginazione 
                                            
$num_record mysql_num_rows($result); 
                                            
                                            
//adesso dichiaro un po' di variabili utili allo script 
                                            
                                            //colonne è il numero di celle per riga che dovà avere la nostra tabella 
                                            
$colonne 2
                                            
                                            
//calcoliamo le righe della tabella che ci dovrebbero venire in base al numero di record 
                                            /*se ho 6 risultati e ho scelto 3 celle per riga avrò due righe totali*/ 
                                            
$tot_righe $num_record/$colonne
                                            
                                            
//dichiaro tre indici che mi serviranno 
                                            
$i_x 0
                                            
$x_x 0
                                            
$k_x 0
                                            
                                            
/*questo mi serve per determinare la lunghezza delle celle della tabella. 
                                            questo valore deve essere variabile ovviamente in base al numero di colonne. 
                                            mi spiego: se ho due colonne la singola cella dovrà 
                                            essere lunga il 50%; se metto tre colonne 
                                            dovrà essere il 33% e così via*/ 
                                            
$cell_width floor(50/$colonne); 
                                            
                                            
                                            
//adesso scrivo il codice di inizio tabella 
                                            
echo 
                                            
'<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> 
                                            <tr>'

                                            
                                            
//adesso scorriamo i risultati ottenuti con un ciclo while 
                                                    
while($off mysql_fetch_array($result)){ 
                                            
                                            
//incremento gli indici perchè mi serviranno dopo 
                                            
$i_x++; 
                                            
$k_x++; 
                                            
$x_x++; 
                                            
                                            
//stampo le celle dei risultati 
                                            
echo'<td>[img]img/bullet_elenco.gif[/img]</td>
                                              <td width="50%">[url="page/dett_offerte.php?id='
.$off["]'.$off["destinazione"].'[/url]</td>'; 
                                            
                                            /*ogni volta che l'indice 
$i_x è uguale al numero 
                                            di colonne scelto vuol dire che devo chiudere una riga*/ 
                                            if(
$i_x == $colonne) { 
                                                 
                                                echo'</tr>'; 
                                                 
                                            /*se invece l'indice 
$i_x è uguale al numero di colonne 
                                            scelto ma l'indice 
$x_x diviso le colonne è diverso 
                                            dalle righe che dovremmo avere vuol dire che ci sono 
                                            ancora dei risultati da stampare. quindi apro una nuova riga*/ 
                                            
                                            if (
$i_x == $colonne && (($x_x/$colonne) != $tot_righe)) { 
                                            
                                                    echo'<tr>'; 
                                            
                                                         } 
                                            //riazzero l'indice 
$i_x per riniziare i calcoli fin quando mi serve 
                                            
$i_x = 0; 
                                                                                } // fine 
$i_x == $colonne 
                                            
                                            } //fine del ciclo 
                                            
                                            /*a questo punto devo vedere che tipo di tabella mi è venuta fuori. 
                                            in pratica devo vedere se ci sono delle celle vuote 
                                            da stampare oppure posso chiudere la tabella. 
                                            per fare questo faccio due controlli 
                                            
                                            se il numero di celle scelte per riga è superiore ai risultati ottenuti per riga stampo o meno le celle mancanti. 
                                            
                                            questo può succedere perchè magari abbiamo scelto di 
                                            avere 3 celle per riga ma i risultati ottenuti sono 4 
                                            e quindi c'è l'inizio di una seconda riga che 
                                            deve avere per forza tre celle... 
                                            un po' contorto ma dovreste aver capito*/ 
                                            
                                            if (
$colonne <= $x_x){ 
                                            
                                            /*stampo le celle mancanti se la divisione dei risultati per le colonne dà il resto. 
                                            questo vuol dire appunto che 
                                            ci sono meno risultati per riga rispetto alle celle scelte*/ 
                                            if ((
$k_x%$colonne) != 0){ 
                                            
                                                
$indice = $k_x
                                            
                                            /*inizio un breve ciclo che in pratica fa questo: 
                                            "
per ogni rigase vedi che i risultati ottenuti 
                                            sono inferiori alle celle scelte con $colonne

                                            
stampami delle celle vuote fino ad arrivare 
                                            al completamento della riga
*/ 
                                            while ((
$indice%$colonne) != ){ 
                                            
                                            echo
'<td>[img]immagine_vuota.gif[/img]</td>'
                                            
                                            
//incremento il nuovo indice per ripetere l'operazione fin quando necessario 
                                            
$indice++; 
                                            
                                                         } 
//fine ciclo while 
                                            
                                            /*se invece la divisione non dà resto vuol dire che 
                                            il numero di risulati va bene in base alle celle scelte 
                                            (ad esempio 3 celle per riga con 6 risulati: 6/3 = 2)*/ 
                                            
                                              
if(($indice%$colonne) == ){ 
                                            
                                            echo
'</tr>'
                                                     
                                                      } 
                                            
                                                    } 
//fine ($k%$colonne)!= 0 
                                            
                                                            
                                            /*stessa cosa qui: il numero di risulati va bene in base 
                                            alle celle scelte e quindi posso chiudere la riga*/ 
                                            
} else{ //fine if $colonne <= $x 
                                              
                                            
echo '</tr>'
                                                             
                                                             } 
                                            
                                            
//adesso posso finalmente chiudere la tabella 
                                            
echo '</table>';

                                            
?>