Predetermine a Table of Contents

[ChetUbetcha]

I have a PHP/MySQL program that exports user input to a Word document. The number of pages always differs based on user input and there are page/section breaks throughout the report when it prints. One section can be 1 page one week and 30 pages the next and there are roughly 12 sections for the entire report.

How do I predetermine a Table of Contents if the number of pages per section changes each week and has to be generated at the beginning of the report?

[bradgrafelman]

ChetUbetcha wrote:

has to be generated at the beginning of the report

Says who? Why can't you poll MySQL for the data, build an array/series of arrays in PHP to hold the data in the categorical format, generate your table of contents once you're done gathering data, and then write out the data temporarily held in the arrays.