Re: Thinking out loud - a continuation...

[Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[snip]The crux of it is:
> 
>    $focus = &$focus[$name];
> [/snip]

It works as I expect so far. All I have to do is figure out how to make the element a name: element in the JSON. for instance an element would look like this

{
   name: "Bob",
   children: []
}

So the PHP array would have to look like this - 

$json = array (
	name => "Bob",
	children => array (
	    name => "Angie"
	)
)

and so on. This is for one of the services that will consume the JSON.