List Pages split into columns

Hello,

My client has over 11 “pages” listed. I would like to have it automatically split into 2-3 columns. I basically want to list 4 links in one column, 4 links in another and 3 links in the last column. I found this area of code in the post-template.php file (see below) is this where a loop will go?

function wp_list_pages($args = ”) {
742 $defaults = array(
743 ‘depth’ => 0, ‘show_date’ => ”,
744 ‘date_format’ => get_option(‘date_format’),
745 ‘child_of’ => 0, ‘exclude’ => ”,
746 ‘title_li’ => __(‘Pages’), ‘echo’ => 1,
747 ‘authors’ => ”, ‘sort_column’ => ‘menu_order, post_title’,
748 ‘link_before’ => ”, ‘link_after’ => ”
749 );
750
751 $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
752 extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );
753
754 $output = ”;
755 $current_page = 0;
756
757 // sanitize, mostly to keep spaces out
758 $r[‘exclude’] = preg_replace(‘/[^0-9,]/’, ”, $r[‘exclude’]);
759
760 // Allow plugins to filter an array of excluded pages
761 $r[‘exclude’] = implode(‘,’, apply_filters(‘wp_list_pages_excludes’, explode(‘,’, $r[‘exclude’])));
762
763 // Query pages.
764 $r[‘hierarchical’] = 0;
765 $pages = get_pages($r);
766
767 if ( !empty($pages) ) {
768 if ( $r[‘title_li’] )
769 $output .= ‘<li class=”pagenav”>’ . $r[‘title_li’] . ‘

‘;
770
771 global $wp_query;
772 if ( is_page() || is_attachment() || $wp_query->is_posts_page )
773 $current_page = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();
774 $output .= walk_page_tree($pages, $r[‘depth’], $current_page, $r);
775
776 if ( $r[‘title_li’] )
777 $output .= ‘
‘;
778 }
779
780 $output = apply_filters(‘wp_list_pages’, $output, $r);
781
782 if ( $r[‘echo’] )
783 echo $output;
784 else
785 return $output;
786 }
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this is the php loop I found but I don’t know how to modify it and incorporate it into wordpress. any help would be great. here is the php loop code.

<?php
/*** the number of columns wide ***/
$num_cols = 3;
/*** and array to traverse ***/
$animals = array(
‘platypus’,
‘wallaby’,
‘dingo’,
‘wombat’,
‘kangaroo’,
‘steve irwin’,
’emu’,
‘kookaburra’,
‘crocodile’);
?>

<table>
<tr
style=”background:orange;”><td>Only</td><td>This</td><td>Wide</td></tr>
<?php
/*** set a counter ***/
$i = 0;
/*** loop over the array ***/
foreach ( $animals as $item )
{
/*** use modulo to check if the row should end ***/
echo $i++%$num_cols==0 ? ‘</tr><tr>’ : ”;
/*** output the array item ***/
echo ‘<td>’.$item.'</td>’;
}
?>
</tr>
</table>