I’m trying to do something similar. On the server-side I am using PHP 5 / MySQL 5. I am testing with data that is just a list of names (’Andy’,'Alex’,'Bob’,'Billy’,'Chris’…etc.). So, I query my database, via PHP, and hold the results in an array.

The part that I am struggling with is the following: when I bring the JSON encoded object into objective C, I want to be able to create sections in my tableview (ie. ‘A’, ‘B’ etc.) for the names and place those names into the appropriate section (ie. Section ‘A’ should have ‘Andy’,'Alex’. Section ‘B’ should have ‘Bob’,'Billy’ etc.). I think that it might be easier to setup the key values in PHP then encode the array with JSON and call it from the iphone app.

I have seen examples of doing this using plists, but none using ‘real data’ .

Any help would be appreciated,
Vivar