How to update footer with with dynamic content on each page?

Question

In each page inside our PrinceXML pdf we need the content in the footer to change based on a php dynamic variable.

Is there a way to update the content in the footer for each page?

(Below is the css code and the div)

css:

@page{ 
    size: US-letter portrait;
    margin: 1in .5in;
    @top{
      content: flow(header);
    }
    @bottom{
      content: flow(footer);
    }
    @bottom-right{
      content: '';
    }
  }
  @page rotated{
    size: US-letter landscape;
  }

  .rotated-page{
    page:rotated;
  }
  /*pagebreaks*/
.page-break{
    page-break-before: always;
  }
.page-break-after{
    page-break-after: always;
  }

/* page_header*/
#header{
    width: 100%;
    flow: static(header,start);
}
.logo-line{
    width:90%;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
}
.page-title{
    font-size: 20px;
    font-family: arial;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

/* page_footer*/
#footer{
  width: 100%;
  padding:0;
  border-top: 3px solid #5D1F22;
  flow: static(footer,start);
}

footer div:

<div id="footer">
    <div class='footer-left'>Revision for <?= $this->manual_nm; ?> in <?= $this->revision_cycle; ?> <br>Submission Document printed on <?= $this->generated_date; ?></div>
    <div class='footer-right'></div>
</div>

Answer 1

You can pull text from the page in order to fulfil the headers and footers.

For example, if I wanted the latest h2 tag to appear in the footer, I could extract it from the heading using the following CSS.

h2 {
    string-set: title content();
}

The name title is a name you give - you could call it heading, for example.

You can then use this string in your footer:

@page {
    @bottom-left {
        content: string(title);
    }
}

Example adapted from Using CSS Paged Media to Add Dynamic Headers.