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I cannot seem to get data into JSON correctly

Anonymous User213802-May-2013
Hi Everyone!

Hello I have spent quite bit of time trying to get my data to look like this in JSON as a sample:

var json = {
    "id": "347_0",
    "name": "Nine Inch Nails",
    "children": [{
        "id": "126510_1",
        "name": "Jerome Dillon",
        "data": {
            "band": "Nine Inch Nails",
            "relation": "member of band"
        },
        "children": [{
            "id": "52163_2",
            "name": "Howlin' Maggie",
            "data": {
                "band": "Jerome Dillon",
                "relation": "member of band"
            },
            "children": []
        }, {
            "id": "324134_3",
            "name": "nearLY",
            "data": {
                "band": "Jerome Dillon",
                "relation": "member of band"
            },
            "children": []
        }]
    }, {
        "id": "173871_4",
        "name": "Charlie Clouser",
        "data": {
            "band": "Nine Inch Nails",
            "relation": "member of band"
        },
        "children": []
    }, {
        "id": "235952_5",
        "name": "James Woolley",
        "data": {
            "band": "Nine Inch Nails",
            "relation": "member of band"
        },
        "children": []
    },

I am using the json_encode function and I know how to make the data into JSON I just cannot seem to create anything that will output the above JSON format...For example I use the following code:

foreach($relations as $rel){
        $data[$id]["relationTo"] = $rel["name"];
        $data[$id]["relation"] = $rel["relation"];
        $id = $id + 1;
    }
    $id = 0;
    foreach($relations as $rel){
        $children[$id]["id"] = $id+1;
        $children[$id]["name"] = $rel["sname"];
        $children[$id]["data"] = $data[$id];
        $id = $id + 1;
    }
    $relationsArray["id"] = 0;
    $relationsArray["name"] = $rel["name"];
    $relationsArray["children"] = $children;

    $json_content =  json_encode($relationsArray);

And this outputs:

"id":0,
"name":"Al",
"children":[
  {
     "id":1,
     "name":"Brandon",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Albaraa",
        "relation":"Friend"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":2,
     "name":"Shen",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Albaraa",
        "relation":"Friend"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":3,
     "name":"Dan",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Albaraa",
        "relation":"Professor"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":4,
     "name":"Bob",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Albaraa",
        "relation":"Boss"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":5,
     "name":"Al",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Albaraa",
        "relation":"God Father"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":6,
     "name":"Albaraa",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Shen",
        "relation":"Friend"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":7,
     "name":"Brandon",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Shen",
        "relation":"Friend"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":8,
     "name":"Dan",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Shen",
        "relation":"Professor"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":9,
     "name":"Albaraa",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Al",
        "relation":"God Son"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  },
  {
     "id":10,
     "name":"Bob",
     "data":{
        "relationTo":"Al",
        "relation":"Best Friends"
     },
     "children":[

     ]
  }
 ]
}
and so on...but I am not able to get the children of the children as you see above!

Any help would be amazing thank you!

Updated on 02-May-2013
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