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+// I have some array in this property $this->categories and `dis` function is just nice way to print array.
 /*
 Here are my array examples
 */
 
 $categories = array(
 	1 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'c',
 	),
 	2 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g',
 	),
 	3 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',
 		'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
 	),
 	4 => array(
 		'a', 'b',
 	),
 	5 => array(
 		'a',
 	),
 	6 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e',
 	),
 	7 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'f',
 		'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
 	),
 	8 => array(
 		'a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'f',
 		'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
 	),
 	9 => array(
 		'a', 'b',
 		'g', 'h',
 	),
 );
 
 function dividingArray( $array, $columnsMax = 3 )
 {
 	dis( $array );
 
 	$listlen   = count( $array );
 	$partlen   = floor( $listlen / $columnsMax );
 	$partrem   = $listlen % $columnsMax;
 	$partition = array();
 	$mark      = 0;
 
 	for ( $px = 0; $px < $columnsMax; $px++ )
 	{
 		$incr             = ( $px < $partrem ) ? $partlen + 1 : $partlen;
 		$partition[ $px ] = array_slice( $array, $mark, $incr );
 		$mark             += $incr;
 	}
 
 	dis( $partition );
 
 	$result = array();
 
 	for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $partition[0] ); $i++ )
 	{
 		$tmp = array();
 
 		foreach ( $partition as $column )
 		{
 			if ( isset( $column[ $i ] ) )
 			{
 				$tmp[] = $column[ $i ];
 			}
 			else
 			{
 				$tmp[] = '';
 			}
 		}
 
 		$result[] = $tmp;
 	}
 
 	dis( $result );
 }
 
 function dis( $var )
 {
 	echo '<pre>';
 	print_r( $var );
 	echo '</pre>';
 }
 
 // Usage for testing
 echo '<h1>Test: 1</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[1] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 2</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[2] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 3</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[3] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 4</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[4] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 5</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[5] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 6</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[6] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 7</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[7] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 8</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[8] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 9</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[9] );
 
 echo '<h1>Test: 10</h1>';
 dividingArray( $categories[10] );