JSON - Structuring the data - php

Question

Essentially, I am trying to format the follow:
I have a series of users, that are part of different communities and each community has a series of tasks to complete BUT some of the tasks within the community are only related to some users. Like so:
Community 1
Members: Joe, James
Tasks: Task 1, Task 2, Task 3
Assigned: Task 1 -> Joe, Task 3 -> James
Community 2:
Members: James
Tasks: Talk 1, Task 14, Task 15
Assigned: Task 1 -> Joe, Task 14 -> James
So essentially. Joe has to complete Task 1, and James has to complete Task 3.
I need a array (that can be encoded to json) that stores the community ID as well as all of the tasks that they have completed but, it should be easily accessible to get the community and the tasks that they have completed.
I have a list of communities that currently exist, and I would like to show all of tasks that have been completed (by the specific user) depending on the community id, as well as this, I also want to add and delete things from the "tasks" category, so need a way to easily get access to these members
I have come up with the following so far:
$progress = array (
"communities" => array(
"id" => 1,
"tasks" => array(
1 => "completed",
2 => "completed"
),
"id" => 2,
"tasks" => array(
150 => "completed",
140 => "completed"
)
),
);
But I don't know if this is the right style of array for this, since, I don't know how complex it will be when I need to add/remove or show the total amount of tasks left for a communities
UPDATE:
This array I'm working with now:
$x = array(
1 => array(
1,
2,
3,
4,
),
2 => array(
3,
5,
6,
10
)
);
Then produces this kind of JSON:
{"1":[1,2,3,4],"2":[3,5,6,10]}
Is this somewhere right? Will I be able to add and delete nodes, as well as add top layer sections to this?

Answer 1

Code sample as a reply to your comment
$progress = array (
"communities" => array(
1 => array(
"tasks" => array(
1 => array("status" => "completed", "assigned_users" => array("James", "Joe")),
2 => array("status" => "pending", "assigned_users" => array("James"))
),
),
2 => array(
//Content of task2
)
)
);
With an extended model like this, you'll be able to:
assign a task to one user or more
remove a user from a specific task
know which users are busy or available
count tasks and getting resources (users) assigned
Getting the task 1 of the first community
echo $progress['communities'][1]['tasks'][1];
Walk the communities collection
foreach ($progress['communities'] as $c) {
//Browse the tasks
foreach ($c['tasks'] as $t) {
var_dump($t);
}
}