Works like a charm.
Also it add automatic ids for your tags, for automatic linking.
Demo here:
http://assist-software.net/blog/qualsyst-iso-management-applicationfunction create_automatic_toc($content) {
preg_match_all( '/<h([1-6])(.*)>([^<]+)<\/h[1-6]>/i', $content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
global $anchors;
$anchors = array();
$toc = '<ul class="toc">'."\n";
$i = 0;
foreach ( $matches as $heading ) {
if ($i == 0)
$startlvl = $heading[1];
$lvl = $heading[1];
$ret = preg_match( '/id=[\'|"](.*)?[\'|"]/i', stripslashes($heading[2]), $anchor );
if ( $ret && $anchor[1] != '' ) {
$anchor = stripslashes( $anchor[1] );
$add_id = false;
} else {
$anchor = preg_replace( '/\s+/', '-', preg_replace('/[^a-z\s]/', '', strtolower( $heading[3] ) ) );
$add_id = true;
}
if ( !in_array( $anchor, $anchors ) ) {
$anchors[] = $anchor;
} else {
$orig_anchor = $anchor;
$i = 2;
while ( in_array( $anchor, $anchors ) ) {
$anchor = $orig_anchor.'-'.$i;
$i++;
}
$anchors[] = $anchor;
}
if ( $add_id ) {
$content = substr_replace( $content, '<h'.$lvl.' id="'.$anchor.'"'.$heading[2].'>'.$heading[3].'</h'.$lvl.'>', strpos( $content, $heading[0] ), strlen( $heading[0] ) );
}
$ret = preg_match( '/title=[\'|"](.*)?[\'|"]/i', stripslashes( $heading[2] ), $title );
if ( $ret && $title[1] != '' )
$title = stripslashes( $title[1] );
else
$title = $heading[3];
$title = trim( strip_tags( $title ) );
if ($i > 0) {
if ($prevlvl < $lvl) {
$toc .= "\n"."<ul>"."\n";
} else if ($prevlvl > $lvl) {
$toc .= '</li>'."\n";
while ($prevlvl > $lvl) {
$toc .= "</ul>"."\n".'</li>'."\n";
$prevlvl--;
}
} else {
$toc .= '</li>'."\n";
}
}
$j = 0;
$toc .= '<li><a href="#'.$anchor.'">'.$title.'</a>';
$prevlvl = $lvl;
$i++;
}
unset( $anchors );
while ( $lvl > $startlvl ) {
$toc .= "\n</ul>";
$lvl--;
}
$toc .= '</li>'."\n";
$toc .= '</ul>'."\n";
return array(
'toc' => $toc,
'content' => $content
);
}
Source:
http://www.westhost.com/contest/php/function/create-table-of-contents/124